![]() ![]() Citizens are being asked to stay at home and practice social and physical distancing as much as possible. We know that there is no going back to “before.” Too much has happened. Most state governments in the US have placed a shelter in place or stay at home order as a way to combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. But the arrival of a new subvariant is also a reminder that the pandemic is not over. And yet the dire predictions of a city damaged beyond repair proved wrong.Īs Plague Year 3 dawns, infection rates have plummeted. Something has been lost, some kind of trust perhaps. Two years and 40,000 deaths later, there remain rips and rifts in the social fabric that have not been repaired and may not be for a while. ![]() The rate at which disaster ensued was in every sense of the word breathtaking. To avoid the looming lockdown New York City mayor Bill de Blasio already mandated all city workers provide proof of vaccination or face termination. The governor of New York said that day that there would be “community spread” of the new disease but that there was “no reason for concern.” The mayor said that the virus “could be anywhere” but told us to go about our normal lives. Beginning in late February 2020, NYC became the global epicenter of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a first wave that crested in late March/early April 2020 (Fig 1). Reliable sources revealed that local officials in New York City are set to impose another coronavirus lockdown on August 1 to avoid the spread of the deadly Delta Variant. If a fellow New Yorker had told you on March 1, 2020, what the next two years held for the city, you would not have believed it. ![]()
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