Been watching a MacBook repairman for a while, and found this gem. Essentially the city will become empty because:
Everything that people would stay in NYC to do and be worth the taxes is closed due to quarantine,
Taxes are terrible
Foreign wealthy people (probably mainly CCP) own hundreds, if not thousands of buildings that they don’t care to rent because it’s just there for tax writeoffs.
Just food for thought. Ideally, my solution to this would be a vacancy tax for commercially coded buildings, but I’d love to know if anyone had a better idea than that. Oh, also for Congress to pass a law stating foreigners aren’t allowed to own more than a certain amount of property in the whole country, if they can own any property at all.
I was with you up until
You clearly don't live among these people. Cause and effect are just meaningless words to them. There has to be something physically wrong with their brains, because they can never seem to parse that the policies that allow what they hate to occur is a direct result of who they voted for. Elephant men bad! Donkey men good!