It was on a Sunday morning, heading from Astoria to the Meatpacking District for a brunch, the city streets were practically empty of cars and pedestrians. It might also have been more like 65mph, but it was still fun to blow through the city like that instead of being bumper to bumper.
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youâll have to forgive me if some local thing is wrong, thatâs what the signs called it and I ainât ever lived in Manhattan
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Just joking around. Although when folks use the new names they slapped on some of the bridges and tunnels a few years ago, I do often have have to pause a moment and ask âWait, which one are they talking about? Oh, yeah, the Triborough.â
ah yeah like the Mario Cuomo bridge (Tappan Zee)
In 2020 the happiest person I saw was my dental hygienist, her commute went from being some toxic but typical Toronto style mix of driving to a commuter train then switching to the subway to the dentistâs office (over an hour total each way) to a 25 minute door to door drive that was impossible pre pandemic.
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i guess itâs wild speculation week over in MSM. we have a russian origin of covid.
In May 1889, people living in Bukhara, a city that was then part of the Russian Empire, began sickening and dying. The respiratory virus that killed them became known as the Russian flu. It swept the world, overwhelming hospitals and killing the old with special ferocity.
Schools and factories were forced to close because so many students and workers were sick. Some of the infected described an odd symptom: a loss of smell and taste. And some of those who recovered reported a lingering exhaustion.
The Russian flu finally ended a few years later, after at least three waves of infection.
Its patterns of infection and symptoms have led some virologists and historians of medicine to now wonder: Might the Russian flu actually have been a pandemic driven by a coronavirus? And could its course give us clues about how our pandemic will play out and wind down?
Iâm not sure what youâre inferring from that article. Arenât they just saying that perhaps a historic pandemic might have been a coronavirus?
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Canât read the full article, but youâd be shocked at how many completely unexplained pandemics there were from the Black Death to roughly 1900 as the population concentrated in dirty ass cities with increasing travel between others.
Outbreaks are super related to hygiene, animal practices, and travel. English sweating sickness is a weird one.
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I read on Facebook that most of those pandemics in the 1800s were biological attacks by Communist Chinese. Funny how no one in the lame stream media wants to talk about that. Makes you think!
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the scientists seem serious. but itâs kinda a jam packed headline and first few paragraphs, whereas the rest of the article is all about MAYBEs, IFs, and BUTs.
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Holy shit!
listen to this
all time great podcast episode imo
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Why are they dressed like the Blues Brothers? Or is that covered?
ha Iâm not sure tbh
This is the current (known) record holder:
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hitting pedestrians is a great way to drum up business
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seems like a little anarchy helped business too
Or the Hugh L. Carey Tunnel (Battery Tunnel)