{"id":387191,"date":"2021-12-29T03:15:22","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/defiant-gothamites-show-covid-panics-days-may-finally-be-numbered\/"},"modified":"2021-12-29T03:15:22","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T00:15:22","slug":"defiant-gothamites-show-covid-panics-days-may-finally-be-numbered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/defiant-gothamites-show-covid-panics-days-may-finally-be-numbered\/","title":{"rendered":"#Defiant Gothamites show COVID panic\u2019s days may finally be numbered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Defiant Gothamites show COVID panic\u2019s days may finally be numbered<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Steve Cuozzo\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-cuozzo.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Just when you thought the pandemic could hold no more surprises, the Omicron grinch has brought America something new for the holidays: the festive panic.<\/p>\n<p>In New York City especially, the number of people, and energy level, in stores and restaurants and on the streets is remarkable given our supposed death rattle. It isn\u2019t that people aren\u2019t afraid. Of course they are. But they\u2019re not as afraid as they were a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Count me, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le-vaccinated, among the brave: I\u2019ve been out and around town, repeatedly testing negative \u2014 but tested again as I write this after learning a relative at a Christmas gathering had tested positive.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, nervous corporate suits scr<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed live audiences for \u201cSaturday Night Live.\u201d Broadway theaters and other performance venues closed for nights at a time due to a single company member having asymptomatic COVID.<\/p>\n<p>But Apple\u2019s reversal is a better barometer of the mood on the street. After announcing the total closure of all its city stores earlier this week, the company partly backtracked Tuesday and said it was reopening them to a reduced number of customers.<\/p>\n<p>Apple learned the hard way from a torrent of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> howling (e.g., \u201cYou are destroying this city!!!!!!\u201d). So should others take the cue. For all the warped coronavirus \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>\u201d on which no two scientists agree, most people are voting with their appetites, their wallets and their wanderlust.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237410671.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20647160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237410671.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237410671.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237410671.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>More than twice the number of travelers took to the skies on Christmas this year compared to last.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237413855.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20647157\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237413855.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237413855.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1237413855.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>New York City\u2019s energy level is remarkable given its supposed death rattle.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anadolu Agency via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>They\u2019re defiant in the face of nerve-grating pronouncements and warnings from the Fauci\/New York Times\/CNN virus-forever complex. They spew horrible <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> 24\/7: Breakthrough infections among the vaccinated! Omicron\u2019s unprecedented contagiousness! <\/p>\n<p>Amid so much gloom untempered by context or nuance \u2014 such as the fact that most Omicron cases among fully vaxxed people are about as eventful as common colds \u2014 one would expect a fear-frozen metropolis would be \u201csheltering in place\u201d as in the darkest days of spring 2020.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>It\u2019s nothing like that, of course \u2014 as a stroll on any block except for a few Hamptons-happy neighborhoods attests.<\/p>\n<p>Christmas weekend air travel was widely reported, but most of the media got the story wrong. The real news wasn\u2019t widely regurgitated (and entirely predictable) accounts of flight cancellations, pilots too sick to fly and <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> airport chaos (as if those things didn\u2019t happen to a lesser degree every holiday season).<\/p>\n<p>What mattered, rather, was how many people took to the air in spite of it all. On Friday, Christmas Eve, more than 1.7 million people went through TSA checkpoints. They were 800,000 fewer than the 2019, pre-COVID total \u2014 how could it be otherwise given the level of hysteria? \u2014 but more than twice the 846,520 fliers on Christmas Eve 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Business is off at many Big Apple restaurants \u2014 again, how could it not be? \u2014 but the news is how busy they remain. Even the \u201cBan indoor dining\u201d mob has shut up despite soaring virus positivity.<\/p>\n<p>Most restaurants are open for New Year\u2019s Eve complete with festive trimmings. Many offer special holiday meals, such as $395 for five courses at Marea on Central Park South \u2014 a place that recently closed for three days after a staff COVID cluster.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Peak, a celebration dining-with-a-view venue 1,000 feet high at Hudson Yards, told me it has a waiting list of 1,000. It\u2019s been sold out for months. There are cancellations but \u201cwe replace them in 20 minutes\u201d on the RESY site, the manager said.<\/p>\n<p>One reason for people\u2019s stiffening disregard for government \u201cguidance\u201d is that most have learned to recognize baloney after being fed it for nearly two years.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1360296511.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20647163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1360296511.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1360296511.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1360296511.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>While some Broadway theaters have closed for nights at a time, the Big Apple is seeing a reversal in these types of responses.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1360805347.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20647167\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1360805347.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1360805347.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1360805347.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Omicron brought a new wave of festive panic, but people are not as afraid as they were last year.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">China News Service via Getty Ima<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On Tuesday, for example, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention radically revised downward its estimate of Omicron prevalence \u2014 from 78 percent of US cases the week ending Dec. 18 to a mere 23 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Oops, off by 55 percentage points? Never mind.<\/p>\n<p>The CDC\u2019s current estimate is 59 percent. Pick a number, any number!<\/p>\n<p>There are even signs that leftist and merely liberal politicians are waking up. Gov. Kathy Hochul, incoming Mayor Eric Adams and outgoing empty suit Bill de Blasio presented a united front Tuesday to declare that public schools will reopen next week and stay open.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it was a warning shot across the bow of the teachers union, which would happily give its members another six months off.<\/p>\n<p>But just maybe it was a sign that panic days are finally numbered.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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In New York City especially, the number of people, and energy level, in stores and restaurants and on the streets&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/covid-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[122728,1545,70344,120464,22512],"class_list":["post-387191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-28-21","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-in-ny","tag-omicron-variant","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}