Love to go there- Broadway shows, jazz clubs, Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island......
But I wouldn’t live there if my life depended on it.
Nonetheless, the very real suffering going on there now (ask Franklin Graham) is something that should deeply disturb all of us.
If I let it, it would. But I'm an old First Responder. You see the pain, but you can't let it eat your lunch. You have to make decisions, sometimes on which hang life and death, and do that dispassionately, quickly, accurately, and retain the ability to function. Yes, there are a lot of people hurting out there, not just from COVID-19, but from a host of other things, not the least of which is being out of work with no light at the end of that tunnel.
There's plenty of misery to go around in the world, this is just another flavor, but because it is an unknown, because we don't know how far, how many, how long, it is scarier than the run of the mill myocardial infarction, unless of course, you can't get any medical help because everyone is tangled up over COVID-19.
It's a shame the lovely drapes in the front room are ruined, but let's focus on the whole house fire, please.