Can you feel the city sliding? De Blasio is drifting and the rest of us are hanging on
By Harry Siegel
New York Daily News |
Aug 23, 2020 at 9:08 AM
Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
Time feels weirder than ever in these post-New York Pause days, when things are open again, supposedly, and the governor who says it’s halftime in the fight against the coronavirus is writing a book about his victory over it. Taking just one moment of silence for each of New York’s 32,451 COVID deaths would stretch over nine hours.
The chronically late mayor’s sense of time is so broken that he’s now appearing with a countdown clock. He didn’t set one for the 180 days between when he closed the city’s schools in March and when they’re now supposed to open again in September (down to just 20 days as of Friday, with parents at a loss as the mayor insists it’s happening even as teachers are rumbling about a wildcat strike).
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