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NYC Mayor De Blasio Issues Insane Thanksgiving Gathering Statement

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On Saturday, tens of thousands of New Yorkers took to the streets of the city, packed shoulder to shoulder, to celebrate the establishment media’s decision to call the presidential race for Democrat Joe Biden.

There were masks and it was outdoors. As we’ve been told before, this is supposed to mitigate the problems — even though plenty of these people no doubt had to get into packed subway cars, buses or Ubers on the way to or from the celebration.

The city’s restaurants are still operating, albeit at 25 percent capacity. Its schools are open — and doing a pretty good job of controlling transmission.

But don’t you have Thanksgiving dinner with your family or friends, or else New York will lose control of COVID-19.

That’s the takeaway from Mayor Bill de Blasio, who held a news conference Monday and told the residents of his city that they should avoid “big meals together.”

This wasn’t just about Thanksgiving, of course. Christmas and Hanukkah are right around the corner; while we often make the eight-day Jewish festival into a bigger holiday than it is, we shouldn’t forget the lascivious glee with which de Blasio has cracked down on his city’s Jewish community.

“One of the most crucial things that’ll happen in the next two months, of course, is the holidays, and the holidays we associate with travel and the holidays we associate with big indoor gatherings, big meals together — that, unfortunately, this year can’t be the case, because if you look at the numbers that we’re going to go over now, you’re going to see loud and clear we’re in a dangerous situation and we have to change our habits,” de Blasio said, according to a transcript of the news conference.

“We cannot take the risk of going back to larger shutdowns of our city, our economy, more and more restrictions. We cannot take that risk. We have to change what we do in light of this situation.”

Should New Yorkers not gather for Thanksgiving?

It’s curious to hear someone talk about how he wants restrictions on people that will affect the economy in order to avoid restrictions that will hurt the economy.

The mayor was later asked whether he planned “to take more aggressive actions, such as not allowing the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree or making sure that any Thanksgiving-related gatherings do not take place.”

“We’re going to look at all that,” de Blasio responded.



New York City is seeing a spike in new COVID-19 cases.

According to The New York Times, 1,207 new cases were reported on Tuesday, along with two deaths. The 14-day changes in both cases and deaths were up 77 and 94 percent, respectively.

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Positivity rates in the city are well over 2 percent right now, which is also troublesome.

“We see the presence of the coronavirus in this city and it’s trying to reassert itself,” de Blasio said.

“We need to do everything in our power to stop the coronavirus from reasserting in New York City. We have to stop a second wave from happening here, it is getting dangerously close.”

“We’re seeing household transmission,” he added. “We’re seeing community spread. We’re seeing things we have not seen in a long time — and we have to stop them.”

Nobody was stopping this, however:

Yes, yes, I understand — there isn’t the same risk from an outdoor celebration that there is from an indoor celebration.

However, there’s also more of a risk when people are shoulder-to-shoulder in Washington Square Park than there is with a small family gathering — and there’s the additional risk of delegitimizing government authority on the matter via insane attempts to influence people’s behavior like this.

But at least if we can gather outdoors safely to celebrate Joe Biden’s media-called victory, we can look forward to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, right?

Oh.

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C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014.
C. Douglas Golden is a writer who splits his time between the United States and Southeast Asia. Specializing in political commentary and world affairs, he's written for Conservative Tribune and The Western Journal since 2014. Aside from politics, he enjoys spending time with his wife, literature (especially British comic novels and modern Japanese lit), indie rock, coffee, Formula One and football (of both American and world varieties).
Birthplace
Morristown, New Jersey
Education
Catholic University of America
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish
Topics of Expertise
American Politics, World Politics, Culture




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