New York is now like 9/11
Everything shut. Thousands of people dying.
shareAre you in NY?
shareNo. I just a news report.
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Everything but the horrible devastation, thousand feet high tongues of flame, desperate people tragically leaping to their deaths and toxic poisonous clouds of dust and debris, enveloping the city, that would continue to destroy lives to this very day.
Yep. Just like 9/11.
9/11 shut down the city. People died. That is the similarity. It will probably claim more than 3,000 lives.
shareI understand that, I do. It's just that I've been listening to people make comparisons to 9/11 for almost 4 years now. I was in Oklahoma City on 9/11. They scrambled the Air Force base and almost shut down the city. They fully expected another McVeigh bombing and so did I. I remember the exact second the other plane hit, the buildings coming down, people dying While The World Watched!!
I remember the days, months and years afterwards when folks Continued to suffer and die.
Nothing NOTHING we have seen since then compares in any realistic way.
I will never forget it.
Meh I’m a NYer and while 9/11 obviously sucked we knew life would return to normal. They found a scapegoat, bombed it, everyone cheered, and life moved on. Additional restrictions in place, but nothing like this.
The post 9/11 dread was from the threat of another attack but there’s ways to deal with that. Pandemics effect every single aspect of our life now and this is only the beginning
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shareThis! ^^^^ Cruz hit the nail on the head! Nothing like 9/11 where people had to make a horrible choice if they were still alive when the planes hit...either burned alive by fiery jet fuel or leaping to their deaths. Either way there wouldn’t be anything left. Personally I would rather succumb to the virus over the way those poor folks did. Again...nothing like 9/11.
shareYou look like you are happy at this little realization. Yay, 9/11 is #1 !
Do you have a most important list of school shootings too? Is Blacksburg '07 better than Sandy Hook '12?
C'mon, show us some enthusiasm !
Jeez you're hateful...
shareOf certain people, yes I am.
shareYeah? Well you're a disgrace.
shareComing from you, I take that as a compliment. You don't know how creepy some people are here, and if you enjoy cheer leading about a tragedy, then I guess you are in good company.
shareI absolutely know how creepy some people are here. That's you and your hateful, sub-human, human centipede cohorts. You prove it by dragging your hateful rhetoric out your home (the politics cesspit) and spewing it here.
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I just watched an episode of Spy Wars with Damien Lewis.
It detailed how British and American counter intelligence groups foiled a major terrorist plot in 2006 which potentially could have been almost as big as 9/11. There were 19 terrorists who planned to blow up multiple planes on their way from the UK to the US using liquid bombs. This is why you can no longer take liquids through airport security.
It was fascinating, and also reassuring to see how hard the good guys are working to prevent another 9/11.
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The OP has a point concerning the emptiness and loss of life but it didn't resemble the current situation for days afterwards.
Those disgusting pathetic psychopathic toxic-waste human beings literally dropped two gigantic bombs on the biggest buildings in the biggest, most influential city in the world.
EVERYTHING that has happened since then doesn't hold a candle to it.
Not even close.
“Thousands dying”? Not hardly! Less than a thousand have died. Get your facts straight before posting, please? Rumors take on a life of their own!
share965 have died in New York
You are correct; less than a thousand.
share59000 cases is pretty insane for one city. If the fatality rate maintains its worldwide average, NYC will have 1000´s of deaths.
shareNot really. The ratio deaths/confirmed uses to be around 5%. That would make about 3000 deaths, which is small number of people for a city like NY.
share3000 is thousands.
shareAnd 2000 is thousands too. It's technically correct, but it's misleading. When you say 'thousands', people use to think about higher numbers than 2000 o 3000.
shareTo me "thousands" is anything more than 2000 and if its technically correct why are people criticizing the OP? By the time the dust has settled, NYC could very well have more deaths than 9/11.
shareIs 27000 misleading?
sharethere's 60k cases in the state of NY -- not NYC
shareState.
shareNyc has an insanely high population and population density PLUS they’re the only place in the state doing drive thru testing. Now in 2 locations I believe.
shareWell, this hasn't aged well...
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Amen!
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I’m really getting tired of the “Hyperbole” as silverstone deemed it. I blame the media and a certain power hungry mayor who I mute every morning. 1000’s of deaths by other posters? Look what it’s caused already! Panic buying! A run on toilet paper? When that started I knew it was going to cause a chain reaction. It would be akin to those ingenious domino set ups...just one domino falling began the destruction of great engineering. “Fascinating” as Spock would put it. It was only logical the food supply would be impacted by selfish hoarders!
It really is not though some people are very concerned
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