You’d think that such fiscal truths would deter Hochul from repeating Cuomo’s blunder.īut Jane Fonda was onto something when she said in October 2020 that the pandemic was “God’s gift to the left.” She meant that the viral toll would focus hatred on then-President Donald Trump, but it applies in a much larger context: that fear of uncontrolled disease spread empowered government at every level to seize control of workplaces, the overall economy and the social order. More than 40 percent of state income tax revenue alone comes from New York City. Will anyone ride the trains again if there are no jobs, stores or theaters?Ī lockdown encore in the city will doom the entire state, where unelected Hochul hopes to win election in 2022. The MTA was so staggered by the loss of ninety percent of subway riders during the 2020 lockdown that it needed $14 billion in new federal funding to stay afloat. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Thursday a plan that includes increasing the number of testing sites in the Big Apple and distributing KN95 masks to New Yorkers. Administrators and curators might as well board up the masterpieces for good and read about them on the beach. They barely made it through Cuomo’s total closure and after, when for many months capacity was capriciously limited to 33 percent while their operating costs remained the same as before. Great cultural institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Carnegie Hall face similar ruin. Restaurants are struggling even after massive government aid.Īnother lockdown will also nip in the bud, if not in the throat, the city’s residential rebound, which would not have happened without a widespread belief that we were again “open for business.” We would never again suffer through months when almost everything was closed and even sidewalk news boxes stood empty - would we?Īs for schools: What parents in their right minds will keep kids enrolled here when organized learning largely goes on without interruption in many other states? Brick-and-mortar retail is on its last legs. Levine/Sipa USAĬommercial real estate, although strong on paper, lives on borrowed time until leases expire at buildings barely 25 percent occupied. Hochul ordered another mask mandate Friday, December 10. Every landlord and business owner I know tells me the same things: The city’s irrepressible, beating heart will be stilled - institutionally and among millions of us who were ready to brave an uncertain, sometimes interrupted future that no one was ready to give up on. Simply put, the city’s real estate, media, retail and hospitality industries won’t survive even a brief second lockdown. Andrew Cuomo imposed on the state from March to June 2020, and only mildly eased in the months that followed, would guarantee the utter destruction of New York City that Cuomo’s jackboot only narrowly avoided. Make no mistake: A second total lockdown like the one then-Gov. 2 that she was not considering shutting down schools or the economy. I’m not considering shutting down schools or the economy at this time,” Hochul said Oct.
But she’s more than left the door open to locking down.
So far, Hochul has wisely emphasized accelerated vaccination and testing efforts. She’s easily cowed to catastrophic effect: Her absurd mask mandate for offices that are largely empty only prolonged their empty state by giving employees more reason to stay home. With daily positivity rates soaring even in the Big Apple, Hochul - untested in high-stakes economic and social governance - will soon come under enormous pressure to lock us down once again.
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