{"id":74034,"date":"2020-05-05T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-05T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74034"},"modified":"2020-07-29T08:06:40","modified_gmt":"2020-07-29T13:06:40","slug":"the-real-victim-of-this-whole-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=74034","title":{"rendered":"The Real Victim Of This Whole Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

New York City – all five boroughs – have been the hardest hit part of the US, and in some ways possibly the free world, by Covid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The most densely packed city in the country and among the densest in the world, dependent on mass transit, jammed into tightly packed offices and restaurants and bodegas and bars and stacked atop each other at levels of density that send a tingle up the Met Council’s leg, the city would seem to be clear if anecodotal evidence that this plague’s greatest friend is density<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in a city with 40% of the nation’s Covid deaths, Yahoo News – which is in constant combat with “Buzzfeed” for “most effortlessly left-biased “news” source” – has found the biggest victim of all<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, the youngest woman ever elected to Congress \u2014 known simply as AOC \u2014 owns another distinction, this one far grimmer: She represents the nation\u2019s most devastated hot zone of the coronavirus outbreak.<\/p>

New York\u2019s 14th Congressional District, which includes the working-class immigrant clusters of the Bronx and Queens, has had 19,200 coronavirus cases as of April 30, more than all of Manhattan, despite having almost 1 million fewer people. Residents of the neighborhoods of Corona and North Corona in her district \u2014 the names are an eerie coincidence \u2014 have had more coronavirus cases than any ZIP code in the country.<\/p>

Ocasio-Cortez, 30, knows many who have died, as well as others who were sickened with the virus, or left hungry or jobless. She sends notes and makes calls to as many surviving family members as she can, serving as a kind of legislative first responder. But it can be hard to keep up.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n\n\n

No – it goes downhill <\/em>from there. I’d pullquote more, but then I’d have that “vomit” taste in my mouth all day at work. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s good to know the media’s got its priorities straight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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