About that Party Finder app: it’s easy to criticize people that are going to flaunt the regulations to have a good time. But asking young people to put another year of their life on hold for a virus that doesn’t kill them is absurd. Do remember how long a year lasts when you’re 19? You change as a person in an entire year.
A public health response that makes sense would appreciate human nature and ethics. Our public health response in the USA has been technocratic and dehumanizing. And then we wonder why we get bad results.
Lawrence Mulcahy
NY eviction ban: Tensions rise between Syracuse landlords and tenants, as rent help sits unspent
Updated Dec 30, 2020;
Posted Dec 30, 2020
This house at 823 Valley Drive was the scene of the alleged crime for the city s first unlawful eviction charge. As tenants and landlords lose income in the pandemic, and evictions are banned under a state moratorium, landlords increasingly are taking matters into their own hands, advocates say.
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. – Shannon Baker was two months and nine days late with rent this summer when, during a record heat wave and a global pandemic, her landlord shut off her electricity at the Valley Drive apartment she shared with her two kids.