{"id":145878,"date":"2021-01-02T04:18:02","date_gmt":"2021-01-02T01:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-york-times-bemoans-restaurant-closures-even-though-it-called-for-them\/"},"modified":"2021-01-02T04:18:02","modified_gmt":"2021-01-02T01:18:02","slug":"new-york-times-bemoans-restaurant-closures-even-though-it-called-for-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-york-times-bemoans-restaurant-closures-even-though-it-called-for-them\/","title":{"rendered":"#New York Times bemoans restaurant closures \u2014 even though it called for them"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#New York Times bemoans restaurant closures \u2014 even though it called for them<\/strong>”
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New York Times \u201cHungry City\u201d columnist Ligaya Mishan this week filed a soulful, sweet-and-sad ode to the lost experience of restaurant-going. Too bad her own paper has been a cheerleader for the irrational, unscientific policies that brought about the monumental loss.<\/p>\n

Headlined \u201cBefore They Closed, Restaurants Opened Doors for Us<\/a>,\u201d Mishan\u2019s piece eloquently evokes her culinary and cultural odyssey, from her Honolulu childhood to New York City\u2019s every edible treasure \u2014 from Michelin-starred Jean-Georges to a bare-bones Nigerian spot in the Morrisania neighborhood in The Bronx.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor now, that life is gone,\u201d she writes dolefully of the city\u2019s indoor-dining ban.<\/p>\n

I mourn with her. But who is to blame? Gov. Cuomo ordered the indoor-dining shutdown on Dec. 11, just six weeks after he belatedly allowed them to reopen at a measly 25 percent capacity. This, even though his own statistics showed that restaurants are responsible for a minuscule 1.4 percent of COVID-19 cases and even though Gotham\u2019s case and hospitalization rates are the second lowest in the state.<\/p>\n

And it was Mishan\u2019s own Times colleagues and bosses who egged him on to do it with months of \u00adbaloney-machine reporting and opinionizing.<\/p>\n

Although the paper isn\u2019t in the total-lockdown camp, it endorses crushing restrictions on many businesses. It\u2019s nominally to protect the public from virus spread, but its true agenda is to promote government control over private enterprise.<\/p>\n

The Times pushed for restaurant closures notwithstanding the fact that it didn\u2019t make sense from a scientific point of view.<\/p>\n

Cuomo didn\u2019t try to justify it other than to say he was worried that hospitals would soon be overwhelmed. \u201cI am governor, hear me roar\u201d cowed most of the media<\/a> \u2014but not The New York Post! \u2014 into silence on what the supposed connection was between dining rooms that were three-quarters empty and rising hospital admissions.<\/p>\n

After Cuomo announced through gritted teeth on Sept. 9 that restaurants could reopen in low gear starting Sept. 30, an uptick in statewide infections gave him an excuse to reverse course. The Times\u2019 drumbeat made it easier for him to pull the plug.<\/p>\n

A panic-mongering April 20 article related how the virus supposedly spread inside a restaurant in Guangzhou, China. Diagrams showed how a faulty air conditioner blew the bug into diners\u2019 faces. That story about a single eatery, worlds removed from conditions and rules in New York, took lie-laden Chinese \u201cresearch\u201d at face value. Yet shutdown zealots continue to cite its purely circumstantial assumptions as \u201cevidence\u201d of indoor dining\u2019s peril.<\/p>\n

Another Times \u201cnews<\/a>\u201d article on Aug. 12 was headlined \u201cThe Nation Wanted To Eat Out Again. Everyone Has Paid the Price.\u201d Citing a few alleged restaurant-driven outbreaks around the country, the specifics-challenged story lazily or ignorantly conflated restaurants, bars and \u201crestaurants\u201d that are actually party venues as if they all were the same thing.<\/p>\n

The paper did it again on Aug. 28. A lengthy piece on the (real) dangers of large gatherings also cited 117 cases \u201clinked\u201d \u2014 journalism\u2019s most suspect word \u2014 to a single Saint Cloud, Minn., \u201crestaurant.\u201d In fact, the aptly named Pickled Loon is a huge, two-level party scene with deejays, a dance floor and \u201cdrinks you won\u2019t find anywhere else.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Times\u2019 biggest guns unleashed their fire soon after the New York \u00adreopenings. Critic Pete Wells exclaimed in a column, \u201cYikes!\u201d It wasn\u2019t an expression of enthusiasm, but of fear that even so minimal a service resumption posed too dangerous a risk.<\/p>\n

The Times showed its true hand on Nov. 11, when its lead editorial declared, \u201cIndoor dining at city restaurants should end.\u201d Cuomo gave them their wish on Dec. 10. To bring back the magic might take until the Twelfth of Never, if we have any restaurants left at all.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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