By Jared Evan
While most New Yorkers are staying home with stocked up refrigerators and placing orders from Amazon and other services, other more audacious people will venture to the local supermarket with their facemasks and fully armed with their hand sanitizer, others will take a lonely walk in the deserted landscape as their only activity besides sitting home, while the most bold New Yorkers are throwing caution to the wind and partying .
According to report from the New York Post, despite New York City’s coronavirus lockdown and social distancing regulations, some locals are continuing to live their best lives, regardless of the law.
“Lucian Wintrich, a former White House reporter and advertisement hand, is one of them. The 31-year-old contrarian recently hosted a ‘corona potluck’ at his small but chic East Village apartment,” the outlet reported Saturday.
They can’t diagnose us all,” a tongue-in-cheek invite to the potluck read. “Don’t wash your hands. … Bring your fav dish!”
“The majority of folks I invited, if they got it, would recover fairly quickly and build up an immunity to the present form of COVID19,” Wintrich said in a statement to the Post.
One of Wintrich’s guests told the Post: “When Britain was being bombed by Nazi Germany during the blitz, they kept the f—king stores open. “People went about their lives,” another party goer added. “We get a flu … and we shut everything down. … We have completely handed over our civil liberties … and anyone who wants to go out and live a normal life is semi-ostracized.”
The theme of civil liberties and government overreach has become a debate in this era of coronavirus, where empty streets and folks hiding in their homes have become the common scene across America & especially in New York. One look at the live Times Square camera online, reveals eerie scenes of the tourist epicenter of the world deserted except for a few police officers and pigeons.
Dr. Knut M. Wittkowski, the former chief biostatistician and epidemiologist at Rockefeller University Hospital spilled the beans to the NY Post and explained that he regularly hangs out at one of two underground restaurants, known as a “speakeasy”. People are essentially opening up secret restaurants in their homes and hidden places, much like the prohibition era, when people ventured out to secret bars to drink the “devil’s brew”
He told the post: “all respiratory epidemics end when 80 percent of all people have become immune,” he said “Then if a new person gets infected, the person doesn’t find anybody else to infect. The best strategy you can do is isolate the old and fragile people — make sure that nobody visits the nursing homes — then let the children go to school and let people go to work. … They have a mild disease. Then they become immune, and after two or three weeks the epidemic is over.”
This is a common but controversial theory.
Meanwhile New Jersey officials are bringing formal charges against a man for throwing a house party — an action in direct contradiction with the state’s order to practice social distancing. When the cops arrived the music was blasting, the drinks were flowing, local NJ media reported. The party of around 50 was quickly broken up and the host was literally charged with a crime, two disorderly persons citations. Only 3 weeks ago, if someone told you holding as private party would be a crime, I’m sure you would have laughed but this is where we are now in the age of coronavirus.
