Predict the Post COVID-19 World

[Benny Profane]

Benny I love ya, but this is FULL EEYORE.

Also, do you really ski Full Tilts?

Also, also, does the NYC metro still include DC? Charlotte?

No, it isn't.

Yes, and Rachle Flexon before.

NYC metro, to me, is commuting distance to Manhattan, but I'm old school. Jersey, lower NY state, L.I., and western Ct.. I dont know, maybe 40 million people? Lots and lots of money churning. Well, not now.

[Lvovsky]

so locally the town and some business folks got together and housed the all the downtown homeless,

https://www.interior-news.com/news/s...ss-population/

i'm not sure where they put the camp but they put up 5 industrial strength camp style tents, a 6th one to cook in, a porta potty and all the homeless in town are now housed

That’s cool. More news of humans sticking together and helping other humans would be nice. I want to believe that we’ll come out as better people after this pandemic but I am not counting on it.

[BmillsSkier]

Ok. Good to know on the Raichle’s

Now, what’s your definition of Upstate New York?

[westoxified]

everyone's got an opinion




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[AK47bp]

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[Benny Profane]

Ok. Good to know on the Raichle’s

Now, what’s your definition of Upstate New York?

Poughkeepsie north.

[gravitylover]

^^ I tend to think it's the Westchester/Orange county lines or more specifically where Rt 6 cuts across SE NY.

[Benny Profane]

Well, Poughkeepsie is about the point that commuting to the city becomes impractical, so, officially, the sticks.

[4matic]

#vanlife will not fade and get stronger

[liv2ski]

Only thing I'm pretty sure of right now is I'll come out of this thing fatter. Other than that, too hard to tell yet.

Right? I told my wife no more 3 meals a day for me as I feel FAF. Sure hope I can surf in the next month. Open the beaches damn it.

[Ottime]

Do yo have a bus terminal in town? I know a few who would think that sounds nice.

so locally the town and some business folks got together and housed the all the downtown homeless,

https://www.interior-news.com/news/s...ss-population/

i'm not sure where they put the camp but they put up 5 industrial strength camp style tents, a 6th one to cook in, a porta potty and all the homeless in town are now housed

[Ottime]

Poughkeepsie north.

I don't know a New Yorker who thinks upstates starts any further north than Yonkers.

[AdironRider]

People really make the commute from Poughkeepsie to NYC daily?

Thats like a 90 minute train ride on a good day each way, just to Grand Central.

My grandparents lived there for 40 years. I always liked the Hudson Valley but fuck man, life is to short to spend about 4 fucking hours a day commuting.

Guaranteed post Corona that shit dies.

Edit to add: Holy fuck 2000 people a day do this? And pay over 500 a month just to do it? https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/...ss/1124653002/

[iceman]

My predictions
-move away from North East accelerated

Pretty much agree with the rest but just curious why you think the North East will be particularly affected.

[toast2266]

I think the big city exodus leads to a national political shift. The San Francisco -> Bozeman / Boise / Colorado / elsewhere in the Rockies shift is going to make some reddish - purple states start to look more blue. I bet a similar shift happens to some states along the Mason Dixon as well. That move away from the big cities will shift the whole country to the left.

[Benny Profane]

Pretty much agree with the rest but just curious why you think the North East will be particularly affected.

Ain't gonna happen, because of water. It rains here, unlike Phoenix or Denver. No tornadoes or earthquakes or wildfires, too.

[ill-advised strategy]

Charles Bowden wrote that studying the dynamics of Ciudad Juarez during the murder epidemic was essential for Americans, because what was taking place in Mexico at that time was our future in this country.
I think he was right, and heroic in the way he used his old age and failing health as a reason to approach some very dangerous and meaningful journalism with a striking fearlessness.

It’s my view that the struggle between a chaotic fascist police state oligarchy and a free, widely-prosperous, orderly, middle-class-dominated society is at that stage of a mma fight chokehold where it’s not over but one party has no way to win and every move just deepens the position. There are moments of stasis where the fight’s not over, the guy being strangled isn’t tapping out, maybe he’ll find a way, but each movement just sinks the choke deeper. Whatever movement it is, it just deepens the choke.

This will be a whole lot of movements, and the choke hold on orderly prosperous middle class American life sinks deeper and deeper with each movement.

I think we’ll look more and more like Mexico, as time goes on...and this pandemic will be an unfortunate series of leaps in that direction.

[Benny Profane]

Well, at least we'll get the car plants back.

[iceman]

People really make the commute from Poughkeepsie to NYC daily?

Thats like a 90 minute train ride on a good day each way, just to Grand Central.

My grandparents lived there for 40 years. I always liked the Hudson Valley but fuck man, life is to short to spend about 4 fucking hours a day commuting.

Guaranteed post Corona that shit dies.

Edit to add: Holy fuck 2000 people a day do this? And pay over 500 a month just to do it? https://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/...ss/1124653002/

Shit 25 years ago I knew a NYC cop who commuted from Poughkeepsie, the commuter trains were busy even back then. Apparently it was a pretty good party on Fridays on the way back home, one time he lost a gun. Got it back later but it was a little dicey there for a bit.

[ill-advised strategy]

Well, at least we'll get the car plants back.

Someday it will reach out and touch you personally.
I’ll be sure to have a cutesy little witty quip lined up.

[Benny Profane]

I thought that would be a good thing.

And this has hit me personally. For fucks sake. I have to wake up at dawn to do food shopping, wearing a mask. And that's the only place I go.

[El Chupacabra]

And this has hit me personally. For fucks sake. I have to wake up at dawn to do food shopping, wearing a mask. And that's the only place I go.

[Benny Profane]

https://www.theamericanconservative....d-dead-in-nyc/



"I've lived in the developing world and you get used to this. You have and they don’t, that’s the way it is, beyond one man’s blame and seemingly any man’s fix. The biggest barrier to some sort of “re-opening” in NYC is to figure out how to express that in palatable terms for 2020. Not that we weren’t already already doing it for the last hundred years, but now we need to make rules to govern our apartheid of dollars that sound OK in the Sunday Review section. The rest is just logistics."

[Timberridge]

I enjoy that we can nest an argument about where upstate NY is in just about any thread.

[XXX-er]

Do yo have a bus terminal in town? I know a few who would think that sounds nice.

greyhound went away last year so no service anywhere out west