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That was some bombshell that New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art dropped into the news cycle the other day.
The nation’s flagship art museum, sprawling home to the nation’s greatest collection of global art, is mulling whether to sell off paintings, sculptures and other art objects in order to help pay off a projected $150 million operating deficit caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Wow!
Not wow to the size of the museum’s expected deficit, which we’ve known about since April. But a definite wow to the possible plan for settling it, a scheme the Met has hitherto always opposed.
By Earl Bousquet
I love figures especially when well-presented, as they can always allow you to see the big picture behind them clearer than a written story or spoken words can tell.
We ve been inundated for the past year with unending numbers of positive cases and deaths, costs of COVID-19 care, prices of vaccines and costs to economies wrecked by the virus, and we ve also seen that money can t save anyone from COVID-19.
Caribbean people have seen jobs and lives lost as well, one million dead in The Americas – almost half the world s COVID-19 deaths.
But few ever give thought to the fact that COVID-19 is actually a huge cash cow being milked voraciously by the world s richest.