People with second homes in the Catskills region of New York are being warned to stay away in venom-laced Facebook posts and blunt messages from county officials.<\/p>
Boardwalks and beaches in some Jersey Shore towns are barricaded, and residents are urging the closure of coastal access bridges to outsiders.<\/p>
In the Hamptons, the famous playground for the rich on the East End of Long Island, locals are angry that an onslaught of visitors has emptied out grocery store shelves.<\/p>
A backlash has grown on the outskirts of the New York region as wealthy people flee to summer homes to avoid the densely packed city, which has become the epicenter of the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>
This clash between year-round residents and those with the means to retreat to vacation homes intensified Tuesday as White House officials advised those who had passed through or fled New York City to place themselves in a 14-day quarantine.<\/p>
\u201cThey\u2019re pumping gas. They\u2019re stopping at grocery stores,\u201d said Kim Langdon, 48, of Ashland, New York. \u201cIf they\u2019re infected and they don\u2019t know it, they\u2019re putting everyone at risk.\u201d<\/p>
The expletive-filled commentary on a Catskills Facebook page was less subtle.<\/p>
\u201cThe only cases in Greene County were brought here from downstate people so stay down there,\u201d one man wrote. \u201cJust because you have a second home up here doesn\u2019t mean you have the right to put us at risk.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The paraable of the Ant and the Grasshopper seems, if not appropriate, at least timely. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I can’t think that this bodes well for Team Blue this fall: residents of communities where wealthy New Yorkers have second\/vacation homes have had about enough of the epidemic carpetbagging: People with second homes in the Catskills region of New York are being warned to stay away in venom-laced Facebook posts and blunt messages from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[416,24],"tags":[423],"class_list":["post-73686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-covid19","category-culture-war","tag-the-endless-emergency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73686"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73692,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73686\/revisions\/73692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}