I live in NYC and rode the subway for the first time since March 2020.

[Yavin4]

I did this two weeks after my 2nd Moderna vaccine shot as instructed. I rode the subway in the middle of the day in the middle of the work week and noticed just how empty everything was. I was getting very strange vibes. I didn't feel as safe as I did a year ago. Less people gives perpetrators less resistance to commit a crime. More people. More crowds. More resistance. More witnesses. Less crime.

Now that the CDC has given the all clear for vaccinated people to go maskless. it's time to full re-open the city and drop the mask mandates. The city needs to encourage people to get out and about. We need to get back to normal.

[PoliticAverse]

1. Don't worry I'm sure you'll be able to feel like a packed sardine again in no time...

- Former NYC rush hour commuter.

[Tomconroy]

2. I had thought about putting up a post about

the things that were lost in NYC during the plague but decided no one would want to hear my bemoaning the loss of places like Brooks Brothers or the 21 Club (although I did think they would be there forever, like General Motors). But the big City is about to come alive again. Broadway opens in September. Time to start planning a trip!

[Yavin4]

3. Indeed.

Never thought I would miss the annoying tourists, but I do.

[Sanity Claws]

4. It is slowly getting more crowded

I have been riding it on occasion since at least September 2020. It got noticably more crowded in the last 2 weeks.
Last Friday on my way home from the office, a small crowd got on at Times Square. Seems that a lot of the new riders are tourists, not commuters.

[enid602]

5. Black Fungus

When they fully open up the city, I would hope they have a plan to solve any problems with the Black Fungus that is currently such a problem in India.

[Tomconroy]

6. NYC can handle a little thing like that.

Didn't Humphrey Bogart have a line in Casablanca where he told the German officers "There are certain sections of New York I'd advise you not to invade under any circumstances". The City could have stood up to the Nazis. It can take on a bug.

[cinematicdiversions]

8. New York can be filthy but it is not and has never been India filthy. NT

[MrsMatt]

14. Differnt envirometal and health conditions United States vs India

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/what-is-black-fungus-the-deadly-infection-afflicting-covid-19-patients-in-india-1.5424962

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-57027829

[Golden Raisin]

7. I also live in NYC and also took my first subway ride

in over a year last weekend. It was mid-afternoon on a Saturday. My car was about 2/3rds full and seemed pretty "normal". Everyone was wearing a mask including the weird guy passing through the car pan-handling.

[Tomconroy]

9. Something I've always wondered:

Why did $20 Martinis always seemed to taste better at the 21 Club?
(Sorry. This post has made me feel nostalgic for the Big City.)

[Yavin4]

10. Don Draper, is that you? n/t

[Tomconroy]

11. Loved every damn episode!

[Tomconroy]

12. OMG

I had so many adventures. Used to go to the University Clubs. Once I took a girl to enjoy the rowing on Central Park Lake ( That's a Rogers and Hart song). Oh My Gosh. I love that City.

[Tomconroy]

13. Oh dear I just looked up what n/ t meant.

All I can say: the Clintons, and the Kennedys used to go there. I liked being at Hemgways or Bogart's usual seat. I guess I should be taken out and hung. Still loved going where Frank Sinatra took Jackie Kennedy on a date. I love those old places.