...cryptocommie mayor of New York and for some reason a Dem candidate for president in 2020. Corrupt and incompetent, his qualifications for office seem to consist of being married to a black woman, with whom he honeymooned in Cuba. He has a preppy-looking son named Dante, whose Divine Comedy involved getting his back hair up when a police car drove past him slowly. New Yorkers voted for him, so they deserve him...
, warned of the possibility of a "full shutdown".In a significant setback for the city’s struggling restaurant industry, eating inside will be suspended for at least two weeks amid soaring Covid-19 cases and hospitalisation rates.
300,000 Americans have died from Covid-19. This is the tragic story in numbers
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"We have to make heartbreaking phone calls to 16 employees, and they’re going to be in limbo," John Winterman, co-owner of Francie, a brasserie in Brooklyn, told the New York Times
...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
. "Which, in professional terms, sucks."
It also comes as the city prepares for its biggest snowstorm in five years, expected to arrive on Wednesday.
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New York’s governor, Andrew
SonnyCuomo
, announced on Friday that he was reversing the decision to allow 25% capacity indoor dining — which has been in place since 30 September, following a six-month shutdown — saying it was "one of the few areas that we think we can actually make a difference".Takeaway, delivery and outdoor dining is still permitted.
According to city data, released on Monday, New York had 185 new hospitalisations, 2,137 new cases and a seven-day average positivity rate of 5.5%. New York state recorded 10,194 new cases and 116 new deaths, the Johns Hopkins university tracker showed.
Speaking on Monday — when Queens ICU nurse Sandra Lindsay became the first American to get vaccinated — De Blasio said there could be more restrictions to come.
"There’s the potential of having to do a full pause, a full shutdown, in the coming weeks, because we can’t let this kind of momentum go," he told CNN
...formerly the
Cable News Network, now who know what it might stand for...
.
"We’re seeing the kind of level of infection with the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
we haven’t seen since May and we have got to stop that momentum — or else our hospital system will be threatened."