Daily Mail: New York CANCELS New Year's Eve: World famous Times Square bash is canned for first time in 114 years amid COVID-19 fears - with celebrations replaced by 'virtual event' on app
* New York's Times Square New Year's Eve ball drop will be virtual this year to accommodate for living under the pandemic
* Times Square will be cordoned off by the NYPD on December 31st
* The event is co-produced by the Times Square Alliance and Countdown Entertainment
* Jamestown, which owns One Times Square, have built a virtual world of Times Square and an app to broadcast the New Year's Eve Ball drop
* While news and past events are highlighted during the celebration, organizers are looking to not linger on COVID and racial tension
New York's Times Square will bid farewell to 2020 without the usual huddled masses jamming the streets on New Year's Eve officials have announced, amid fears that crowds could spread coronavirus.
The New Year's Eve celebration in Times Square is among the biggest in the world, typically drawing about a million people to the streets of midtown Manhattan, with more than a billion more tuning in on television.
But this year Times Square will be cordoned off by the NYPD on December 31st, with organizers instead planning a scaled-back, virtual event and an app where revelers can view the countdown remotely.
The Times Square Alliance, which runs the event, said only a very limited group of socially distanced people will be allowed into the square for broadcast purposes.
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Update: New Year’s Eve ball drop in Times Square will be virtual this year (NYPost)
WNU Editor: A virtual event?!?!?!? How lame.
5 comments:
This is good news. The lives of many Gotham citizens and visitors will be saved. De Blasio's Gotham is a lawless place.
Well, NYC is broke, thanks to a virus coming from China
Oh and guess who is now buying up corporations and real estate in China, while people are desperate?
Yup...China
I'm sure it's all coincidental
This is war by other means. You're being enslaved nonetheless.
Buying up in NYC not in China lol
All easily prevented. Simply don't shut down your economy, take steps to protect those most vulnerable, and prescribe HCQ early in the disease. It also helps if not to financially incentivize both numbers of positive cases and deaths from the disease. By going into one of the most brutal lockdowns in the world the US government essentially dropped the equivalent of multiple economic warheads on its own people. Then when this wasn't enough hordes of rioters and looters were released. The American government essentially declared war on its own people!!
In doing so the American government declared war on itself as well. Like crazed lunatics they insist upon fomenting conflict with both Russia and China all while destroying the economy which would have enabled to act in a role of "big power." Now we can't for much longer. Furthermore the crazed lockdown has all but ensured not only the end of the US dollar as world reserve currency but has pretty much assured that it will be a "hard landing" when the inevitable does occur.
The only thing allowing the United States to remain on the same level as other major world powers is having the world reserve currency. This has allowed the country to "punch above its weight." Without this our country becomes just another country and not even a very attractive one at that. Perhaps this is the first time in history that a government took itself out by entirely self inflicted wounds.
Finally, if everyone approached risk analysis with everything in the same manner that the government is approaching COVID-19, we would literally never leave the house!! In fact, I think we would have to not stay in bed but stay under the bed!!
Now if china declared war by the virus, the chief weapon has been the self inflicted lockdowns as implemented by the US. Other countries have done this as well but few have been as brutal in the endeavor as the US has.
Actually NY is broke thanks to its response to the virus. The effects of the virus itself were/are easily weatherable with minimal damage. Perhaps they fell victim to Chinese propaganda and were tricked into destroying themselves. If so, this is easily preventable. Take the time to study the situation, consult with the affected stakeholders, and then make a decision. Unfortunately Fauci, Birx, and the other experts wouldn't listen to ANYONE!! It's as though they couldn't wait to destroy lives!! I suppose it could be likened to a patient whose immune system overreacts and ends up killing the patient. Then when the people proved to resourceful, the rioters and looters were brought on all supported and encouraged by the government. The primary enemy here seems to be the government rather than China. Perhaps they are on the same team!!
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