I want to say this as gently and carefully and lovingly as possible:

People want to love NYC. We do. Y'all are strong and brave and you're doing some of the hardest things and we want the best for you.

But also your mayor & health officials could have stopped this and didn't.

Gov Cuomo has done some really great things, getting shit together in a city whose mayor couldn't be bothered to take the event of a century seriously.

And then Cuomo issued an order to take, by force, the ventilators from everyone in the state who *did* take this seriously.

And then the rich NYC folk flee city homes to spread this thing in the small towns where they own their vacation homes.

If you do that and ask for sympathy, you're asking a lot.

And who, exactly, has been "shunned" here? All the examples are like "these mean states want us New Yorkers to self-quarantine when we flee to their states. They expect us! Their superiors! To play by basic quarantine rules!"

The author says that NYers have to "stay hunkered down in tiny apartments and listen to the sirens all night".

Well yes! Yes, we expect that. That's we all have to do! Everyone has to do that! You're not special!

My heart fucking breaks for NY, you guys are going through fucking hell.

But this article seems to come from the part of NY I have the least sympathy for.

NY is filled w/ hourly workers, gig workers, union workers, the life blood of the city who can't sit at home.

These people aren't sitting at home listening to sirens.

They don't have vacation homes to retreat to.

They're running the sirens. They're moving people, hand-pumping respirators in the ambulance, trying to keep their family restaurant of 50 years alive.

I want those stories. I want to hear about the people doing the work.

I'm fucking sick of NYC stories that come from white collar college kids stuck in their apartment pecking their casual musings into their Macbook.