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Also no kosher option. Still Halal and Vegetarian options available, so clearly some thought given and overlooked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City
If I were given food for free when I have no food, I'd eat anything. Not a New Yorker, was through war when I was a kid, speaking from experience.
But in order to get them you have to congregate. :\
Yikes. This vaguely reminds me of Frostpunk. Things must be getting pretty bad in NYC.
I live in Brooklyn and very close to a hospital. It may be a "war zone" per NYTimes inside the hospitals (I can not verify that) but outside, including ambulance traffic, it is very quiet. Too quiet.
NYC today, everywhere else in a few days/weeks. Without universal basic income, we are totally f@cked. 30-40% of people are without income and it's either soup kitchens and spike in crime, or UBI.
UBI isn't a savior. UBI still requires that people, you know, pay taxes. If 30-40% of people have no income and are completely dependent upon the government, then you have slavery 2.0 (3.0?) and you will end up creating a worse, classed society than you had before: the ones receiving vs. those who pay for what everyone else gets.
Or the government just prints money and money doesn't mean anything anymore because the government controls what it is worth.
Either way things are not good, but they are not good in a way that just means people starve, it means that the foundation of society is crumbling.
New York City, that is. Not New York State.
Also no kosher option. Still Halal and Vegetarian options available, so clearly some thought given and overlooked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_New_York_City
Still it's probably easier to control than thousands of separate restaurants and food markets, which is undoubtedly their thinking: centralize food distribution to minimize risky contact.
This is a sobering reminder of how dependent city dwellers are on a just-in-time food distribution network; most Manhattan apartments don't have a lot of storage space for an extended hunker down, nor room for a garden and chickens.
NYC today, everywhere else in a few days/weeks. Without universal basic income, we are totally f@cked. 30-40% of people are without income and it's either soup kitchens and spike in crime, or UBI.
"Without universal basic income, we are totally f@cked." Speak only for yourself.
Yikes. This vaguely reminds me of Frostpunk. Things must be getting pretty bad in NYC.
cash in hand and/or packages with essentials is best, people will survive and then some. This will help spread the disease.
These are literally boxed meals. Packages...with essentials.
But in order to get them you have to congregate. :\