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Posted by AlM on Sun Apr 5 14:17:29 2020, in response to Re: Long term political and economic impacts of the pandemic, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Sun Apr 5 14:02:59 2020. 4. The upscale urban housing boom is over, period. Turns out high density living and a reliance of public transport (without Asian-style culture and mannerisms to blunt the effect) turns you into an infectious disease hotbed, and supply chain disruptions hit cities worse than suburbs or rural areas.No. Comfortably middle class (and well-to-do) life in Manhattan has hardly been disrupted, except for the lack of events to go to. Once the vaccine is here, everything will be back to normal. I am at no more risk of contacting the virus than you are, probably less. The supply chain is doing fine here. There are tractor trailers unloading in front of our supermarket every weekday. True, I don't dare use the subway. But where is there to go, anyway? It's working class city residents who may very well have it worse than their suburban counterparts, because they have to use the subway to get to their job. There aren't any maps of virus incidence by neighborhood, but it's not a coincidence that Manhattan is the borough least affected. The big source of virus incidence in the non-working-class areas of Manhattan is that bars and restaurants were still open through March 15th. |
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