Imagine JR announcing that
Yeah the question is how many more days of 600 more hospitalized (with average of 2-3 weeks assuming) can NYC hospitals take?
Seems like there’s help available but the only way to get it is to raise the panic alarm like Elmhurst did. So it’s hard to tease out how close they really are to a no help available situation like Italy where people are being denied ventilators.
Then Elon finds 1000 ventilators in China and I’m like wait - what? Why didn’t Italy do that?
If only right wing people died, (allegedly) I would be pretty non plussed at this point.
Are banks and fast food restaurants allowing pedestrians to use the drive-ups? Because that was always a big no in my experience in the past, for reasons that never made any sense except to say “fuck you” to people who don’t have cars.
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The 600 number will go up daily as non-tested people will start to show up… and we all know how many people thought they needed a test but couldn’t get one.
Stats show it takes these people 7-10 days from initially noticing their symptoms, to need hospital treatment, 50% of which will need a ventilator for 11-21 days. 50% of those won’t be making an appearance on the recovered numbers unless you’re in Germany
Not sure but I remember when I was a yute in California, me and me and my brother stayed with a friend who lived behind a Del Taco and we used to walk through the drive thru in the middle of the night. Eventually they made us stop.
I have been aware of the ban on pedestrians for a while and at one time think I even heard why but I am not sure it was terribly compelling.
49.6% increase in cases today in Pennsylvania despite the shutdowns, yikes
Your personal experience is just as valid as mine, but I don’t know any local slumlords.
You’re probably the kind of person who calls in a problem with his furnace at 5:30pm on a Friday even though he knew about the issue on Tuesday. That’s the kind of stuff that piles up over time and results in jaded landlords who run out of fucks to give.
The new at life college kids are usually the worst.
I’m wondering if pedestrians aren’t allowed in drive thrus for safety reasons.
Basically this?
Sounds like projection to me. I’ve never known anyone who does this. Why would they? If my furnace wasn’t working on Tuesday, why the shit would I wait til Friday to report it?
In Inso world, everyone is an asshole but him, the kindly, just looking out for everyone’s best interest landlord.
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Geographical issues aside, the easiest way to get rid of rodents is to cut off their food supply. If you live like an animal, you’ll attract other animals. Don’t leave food out. Take out your garbage. Don’t leave literal garbage scattered all over your unit. Mice cannot easily open refrigerators and cabinets, so if they can’t access your food, they’ll find somewhere else to live. Our pest control guy is good, but no amount of traps or poison is going to get the tenant to clean up his 7 weeks of old (not empty) pizza boxes all over the living room.
lmfao, he can’t even fabricate a semi-believable scenario where he’s getting dicked over. I’m in a decent apartment and I’m sure a shit not getting non-emergency things fixed if I call at 5:30 and if it’s an emergency like it’s winter and there’s no heat then that’s why there’s an emergency guy on call. Sorry, get a different job if you don’t like it.
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Yes I’m assuming the rule is in place so people don’t end up getting run over by other drive thru users. Probably came from the insurance companies
In October, murky water began spurting from my bathroom wall. The wallpaper cracked and distended before it burst like over-blown bubble gum, exposing the drywall behind it and short-circuiting the bathroom’s light and only outlet. For days, I shaved in the dark, more fearful of being electrocuted than missing some hairs under my jaw.
My water problems, however, were nothing compared to those of other tenants. Kushner Companies has a history of using coercion, bullying, and “construction as harassment” to force tenants out, gut renovate the empty apartments, raise the rent, and make way for high-paying condo buyers. In fact, Kushner Companies’ apathy for its tenants’ well-being borders on hostility.
Elsewhere in my building, workers drilled a wide hole directly above one tenant’s shower, she told me, dripping dirty water onto her for a month. Residents Mark Fritsche, Mary Ann Siwek, and Christine Davis have all endured ceiling collapses due to pipe leaks — including, in Davis’ case, a sewage pipe. Siwek told the Daily News , “The trauma of having your bathroom collapse in the middle of the night is the most frightening experience.”
For a week straight at Kushner-owned 201 East Second Street, brown water came out of “ everyone’s faucet,” former tenant Alessandro Harabin told me recently. “I know this because all the neighbors on my floor would talk about it — we had a whole email thread.” He showered at the gym and was forced to buy bottled drinking water.
At 331 East Ninth Street, “dirty liquids emanat[ed] from the ceiling and [fell] onto the floors and bedding, causing unsightly stains and foul odors,” according to former tenant Hannah Barr. Her washer/dryer once leaked so much water that it set off the fire alarm. In the same building, three days before Thanksgiving in 2013, contractors renovating the apartment above Uta Winkler’s ruptured a pipe, sending 19,000 gallons of water — “similar to the intensity of water released from an open fire hydrant,” she said in a lawsuit filed in 2016 — gushing through her ceiling. Westminster’s recompense was meager to the point of insult, offering to pay for Winkler to stay two nights — two! — in a hotel. Two weeks later, a worker crashed through her ceiling and landed on her bed.
Tenants’ physical safety has never been a priority of Kushner Companies. Jennifer Hengen’s ceiling, at 118 East Fourth Street, collapsed five times. Harabin once stabbed his hand on a rusty nail sticking out of the wall after slipping on vomit left on the stairs. “Oh, yeah, I was bleeding,” he told me. “I had to go to the hospital, get it disinfected, and get two stitches.” Winkler developed respiratory problems — including, for six weeks in January 2014, pneumonia — from an infestation of black mold that grew after her apartment flooded. And every tenant I spoke to mentioned the layer of construction-induced dust that perpetually covered everything from their floors to the clothes in their wardrobes. This was a mere nuisance for me, but other tenants, like Siwek, developed coughing and itching problems. The dust at 184 Kent Avenue was allegedly toxic and carcinogenic, containing dangerous levels of lead and crystalline silica. Our ability to breathe, that most basic and crucial of bodily functions, wasn’t guaranteed. We were living in a noxious, noisy dust bowl.
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My thoughts exactly. We get this type of shit ALL the time. I’m not going to clog up the thread with many stories of tenants doing retarded things that defy logic and basic common sense, but you grossly underestimate how stupid the general population is.
We received a maintenance request on Sunday from a guy who works in a butcher shop and said his washing machine is broken. It has apparently been broken since October, but rather than saying something, he’s just been going to the laundromat. Well now he says the laundromats are closing (I doubt this) and he can’t go to work handling raw meat with dirty clothes, so he wants his washing machine fixed. My appliance guy isn’t taking non-emergency calls during the lockdown so now I have to find someone else to fix it. The good news is it’s probably something simple like a lid switch, because tenants don’t own the machine so they don’t care enough to take the approximately 1 extra second to close it like a normal human being instead of slamming it down or letting it drop.
That is right now I remember. Because they have sensor plates to time things, that people don’t trigger.
I remember one time at a Wendy’s with long waits they had People pull to the side while they artificially activated the sensor to keep their average order time down. Another place had people just keep driving around as they waited to keep setting and resetting the timer.
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Amazing.