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Conditions worsen for NYCHA. I went to visit family in one of these projects last Sunday they showed in the video and the floor looks like they haven't cleaned it since the month began. This mostly focused on Melrose but if Corona hits a project area like Claremont Village, Melrose/Jackson or Mott Haven, it will be completely uncontrollable. Now it not the time to have city workers not showing up to do their jobs.
You need to separate out LEGAL immigrants from the undocumented. When you do you will note the following for NYC.
1. Foreign born are more likely to work than the native born.
2. Median household incomes of the foreign born are only slightly lower than for the native born.
3. Foreign born are NOT more likely to depend on social services than are the native born.
4. The healthcare sector would crumble without the foreign born. And this means from doctors all the way down to home health aids.
5. Foreign born are MORE likely to own businesses than are the native born. And this includes every thing from bodegas right through to tech companies.
6. Without the foreign born NYC would have been like Philly. A declining city with a collapsing population. It was the foreign born who kept many neighborhoods from collapsing into complete decay when many of the native born left the city.
You really ought to stop thinking that impoverished Honduran women typify today's immigrant. In fact today's immigrant assimilate FASTER than did those who arrived through Ellis Island.
It is the immigration to the USA/Canada that has prevented North America from being the dying continent that Europe now is as the population in that continent ages so fast that gov'ts now have to bribe young couples to have kids.
NYC is collapsing now due to excessive density. Coronavirus doesn’t care whether you have a job or not, whether you own a business or not, or what your citizenship status is.
The healthcare system is crumbling as we speak in many places around the world due to the sheer volume of infected people and whole economies are being destroyed.
Is there any difference between this and the fact already NYers were told to quarantine themselves at their destinations if they are to travel anywhere?!
They should keep prisoners strictly in their cells and deliver food to the cells. The corrections officers should wear masks and use hand disinfectant. Those measures are simple, cheap and effective. If somebody's cellmate gets sick, the other cellmate has obviously already been exposed too, so no point in moving him elsewhere.
They should keep prisoners strictly in their cells and deliver food to the cells. The corrections officers should wear masks and use hand disinfectant. Those measures are simple, cheap and effective. If somebody's cellmate gets sick, the other cellmate has obviously already been exposed too, so no point in moving him elsewhere.
Sounds reasonable but for the fact that if we are going bonkers in our apartments, imagine what happens to the mental stability of two people sharing a 6 x 8 cell 24/7 (especially if they don't LIKE each another.)
Last edited by Kefir King; 03-29-2020 at 06:26 AM..
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