New York City is moving to shut down schools, restaurant dining and nonessential businesses in nine Brooklyn and Queens neighborhoods undergoing a surge in COVID-19 cases, Mayor de Blasio said Sunday.
The shutdown — which would mark a significant reversal to the painstaking, months-long process of reopening the city — will start Wednesday pending state approval, he added.
“The goal here is to do everything we can to stop something bigger from happening right now,” Hizzoner said at a press conference.
“It will require sacrifice. We’re talking about people who have been through so much,” he continued. “But it’s something that we believe is necessary to keep this city from going backwards towards where we were months ago.”
The city is targeting nine areas, including predominantly Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods, where cases began to flare up last month. Those include Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Gravesend, Midwood and Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn, along with Far Rockaway and Kew Gardens in Queens.
If the state approves de Blasio’s plan, students in those areas will be able attend public and private school in person on Monday and Tuesday, but will have to shift to online-only learning starting Wednesday.
“Those two days are going to give us crucial time to make sure students have the devices they need for the remote learning tenure they will have,” said Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza. “They’ll allow us also to communicate with families, to set up schedules for remote learning.”
Both indoor and outdoor dining would be banned, but houses of worship will be allowed to stay open for now.
Most New York City schools haven’t even been open a full week, and already Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plans have hit a major setback: He wants to shut down campuses as of Wednesday in nine ZIP codes where coronavirus positivity rates had surpassed a 3% over at least the past seven days.
The closures, which de Blasio announced Sunday, would affect about 100 public schools in Far Rockaway, Southern Brooklyn, and Central Queens neighborhoods. Some 200 private schools in those areas are also slated to close.
Children in closed schools will begin learning remotely on Wednesday, less than a week after all but one district building officially reopened for hybrid learning, a model that allows students to learn in-person one to three days a week in socially distanced classrooms, while learning remotely the rest of the time.Schools will be allowed to stay open through Tuesday so teachers can help students prepare for fully virtual learning and hand out additional devices, de Blasio said.
That decision immediately prompted outcry from some city lawmakers and educators who wondered why they need to be closed imminently but are safe enough to stay open for the next three days.
The mayor “just announced that it’s NOT safe to go to school in 9 zip codes, but is encouraging kids to get 1 more day inside school before they close,” tweeted Councilman Mark Treyger, who is the chairman of the city council’s education committee.
36 comments:
No word on the Umbrella Hotel right next to the Queens DA's office?
Heard lead poisoning is going on there on a massive scale.
That's in Kew Gardens isn't it?
Hassids don’t respect science and COVID in these babes. Pity!
Hassids don’t respect science
What an ignorant comment. What science? The fake one where Fauci profits from the vaccines?
Or Bill Gates, who can't write one line of code, but comes from a family of eugenicists?
Who without a medical training, medical degree is administering vaccines all over the planet while having an orgasm?
I guess when you have enough (stolen) money you can buy the WHO. Which is what he did.
Of course he also flew on Lolita Express with his buddy Epstein.
So what science we are talking about? Do tell. Still waiting.
PS. There is no COVID. Is called Sars-cov-2.
A month. Yeah right.
Why do they look at percentage of tested? Should I go for a test since I don’t have it to keep the percentage down for my zip code? So dumb....
"So what science we are talking about? Do tell. Still waiting".
It used to be called junk science. Nowadays it's called "settled" science and anyone who doesn't buy into it is considered an enemy of the people, history's greatest monster, fascist, racist, etc.
Put your mask on and shut up ! Until after the election....
Anon Said:
PS. There is no COVID. Is called Sars-cov-2.
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PLEEZE, that is like saying you are an ASSHOLE, but it is called IGNORAMUS. Same thing.
Isn't that picture of the Kew Gardens overpass that the DOT wants to shut down all the stores on, demolish, and rebuild?
Seems like this is the perfect time to do it. There's never going to be a good time to do it that won't screw over some great stores, but this seems like the least worst time.
As someone who moved to a red state many years ago, I couldn't be happier. Our schools are open and our businesses are too. People are dealing with COVID just like other strains of the flu, but most of us do wear our masks and practice social distancing of six feet. So far, so good. Not the nature to panic out here in "fly over country." Please, keep flying over.
PUHLEEZE!
FACT:
It’s the Hasidic nabes that have the outbreak. No masks....no respect for scientific prevention.
NOW...go and pull the anti Semitic card and call me a bigot!
BAH! Fakers!
You’re killing yourselves and others. God’s will? We’ll see!
Bah! Live in your red state isolation. Funny how these red states are seeing INCREASING COVID outbreaks. Listen to your “great leader” Drumpf.
Remember the family name is really DRUMPF not Trump! Even that’s fake!
Yep....make America simple again...like the good old days😂so the simple minded can comprehend it🤣🤣🤣
So where are the people who live in Kew Gardens and the Rockaways etc going to shop? Oh, they will travel to other areas and spread it.
PLEEZE, that is like saying you are an ASSHOLE, but it is called IGNORAMUS. Same thing.
According to you.
The rest of the world where critical thinking is not dead yet, is already suing for the crimes against humanity under the pretext of COVID-19/SARS-COV-2, perpetrated by politicians, evil media, pharma, globalist marxists.
https://youtu.be/kr04gHbP5MQ
For the so called "scientists" - CDC Admits Covid19 Test Does Not Exist.
The CDC also lied about "COVID-19" death toll.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/the-cdc-confesses-to-lying-about-covid-19-death-numbers
So in my humble opinion IGNORAMUS, go pound sand with the "Global Warming" cult.
First, the head of the WHO is not even a MEDICAL DOCTOR.
Second, Fauci has never actually practiced medicine. He has spent his entire career in an ivory tower studying theories.
Third, why are Orthodox Jewish areas being singled out but left-wing "protests" and occupied zones like CHAZ are allowed to go on for months on end with no apparent uptick in COVID cases? Not a single member of the Democrat Party and not a single member of the medical community found it important enough to denounce such large gatherings of people. This must be the smartest virus in history - it only affects Orthodox Jews and Republicans.
And right on schedule, due to Biden's daily diminishing chances of getting elected, there is now a "second-wave." I've never seen such a smart virus!
Moe said...
@Michelle said... Very good point !
Quarantine is when you restrict the movement of sick people.Tyranny is when you restrict the movement of healthy people.
Conspiracy Theory Bingo! From Russia with stupid!
This thread almost has it all:
1. Fauci is out to get us, or get rich.
2. Fauci doesn't know anything
3. Bill Gates is out to get us, or get rich.
4. Bill Gates doesn't know how to code
5. Bill Gates is somehow associated with eugenicists
6. Obligatory Epstein reference
7. COVID doesn't exist, but SARS-COV-2 does!!
8. Obligatory person who claims to be from out of NYC, but comments here to brag about how everything is perfect wherever they claim to be from.
9. COVID test doesn't really exist
10. CDC lying about death toll, linking to a site that uses a picture of maple leaf scanned 30 years ago on DOS as it's logo.
11. Media bad, globalist Marxists bad, yada yada
But the best one so far is the allegation of the non medical people who need to travel the globe vaccinating other people in order to experience orgasms. Those poor people.
I rate these comments an 9 out of 10, as I can't stop laughing. We're still missing QAnon theories and infowars references. Work harder comrades!
warp10 said... Use your head for more than a hat rack !
Scientists don't agree with lockdowns- they agree with Herd Immunity.
@warp10 said...
So it is a flu. Thanks for confirming my suspicion.
Info Wars Reader said...
The Deep State obviously has a timeline of scheduled "events" leading up to the election to try and secure universal mail in balloting.... It's so obvious, it's laughable...
@warp10
Must hurt to be this stupid. Or George is paying you to play stupid.
The world was changed because of a “virus” that a 74-year-old overweight male overcame in three days. Let’s shut the world down for the flu. What a joke
We cant let Covid consume our lives, like the Dems have.
Global Marxist?
WHATTA YOU BEEN SMOKING?😂
And the left always says, "why cant we be more like those european countries" !
Global Marxist?
WHATTA YOU BEEN SMOKING?😂
Check, proud product of Common Core.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale
Anyone who has even a speck hope left for humanity surviving into the next century would be well advised to read the comments on Queens Crap.
Warp10: It's heartwarming to see the faith you place in Fauci and Gates. I bet you think Fauci's shit don't stink but ah, it actually does and quite offensively. He owns HUNDREDS of vaccine patents. Perhaps you don't know how intellectual property is monetized but rest assured Fauci is a very wealthy, weaseley little con man. Gates' connection to eugenics goes back to his father, one of the founders (along with David Rockefeller) of Planned Parenthood. The B&M Gates Foundation and their henchmen at the WHO have injured thousands of children in Africa and India with their malaria and polio vaccines. The wonderful thing about vaccines in the US of A is that they are considered "biologics," not medicine, so if your child suffers an injury or dies you can't get judicial redress from the pharmaceutical company. President Nkurunziza of Burundi offered the WHO a dozen random samples from his citizenry (with names and ages) and they all tested positive for Covid. Nkurunziza later revealed that the samples came from a papaya, a goat, battery acid, etc., and weeks later he "suffered a fatal heart attack." Now who's being naive, Cay? PS: Not a Republican bot, just annoyed at the abject stupidity.
@Unknown
Absolutely true.
Not to mention the $1 Trillion the few stand to make on the vaccines. With no liability attached. So they can kill as many they want with impunity.
https://www.brasscheck.com/video/the-trillion-dollar-gamble/?omhide=true
Unflipping believable.
Not to mention the coming Social Score System ala China under the disguise of Covid/Immunity Passports. No travel, no job, no loan - off the grid until tested and vaccinated.
https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/immunity-passports-in-the-context-of-covid-19
I see a lot of comments about Flushing, Chinese. Lived in Flushing, had lots of Chinese friends. Don't blame them, blame the corrupt local politicians who are enamored with the new China Digital Dictatorship implemented by CCP via 200 million cameras and concentration camps. This is what they have in mind for the world actually, the globalist scum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eViswN602_k
Chinese in Flushing were brought in by corrupt politicians (whom they later owned) to keep “people of color” from “taking over” Flushing! In a nutshell!
Of course cries of anti Semitism are ringing out. If you want to live in isolation and ignore wearing masks, then STAY in your community. DON’T INFECT US, please!
This is just common sense, it's too bad the left has none of that.
Meg Whitmer is the same way. Always smiling as she's restricting freedoms.
Chinese in Flushing were brought in by corrupt politicians (whom they later owned) to keep “people of color” from “taking over” Flushing! In a nutshell!
I know the history of Flushing, I had front row seat. What you are saying is absolutely true, however the latest round of imports are from mainland China. Need to say more?
PS. The people of color couldn't pay for the corruption, but they needed every 4 years for their votes.
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