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That’s a weird way to spell covid. I mean the retail theft can’t be helping the downtown but I’ve been a couple time over the pandemic and it has been a shadow
by mint2 5y ago
That’s a weird way to spell covid.
I mean the retail theft can’t be helping the downtown but I’ve been a couple time over the pandemic and it has been a shadow of its former self.
- influx 5y agoI was in Union Square just prior to these looting incidents and it was not boarded up.
- mint2 5y agoIt may not have been boarded up, but it was nowhere near how it was precovid. Do you disagree?
- ehvatum 5y agoThe people quoted in the article are clearly motivated by flash mobs to stay away from the shopping area.
- mint2 5y agoFixed that for you: > A single local is quoted in the very last sentences of the article saying people are clearly motivated by flash mobs to stay away from the shopping area. They quoted a few people in the article, but there was a one sentence quote at the very end making the claim about the mobs, the other quotes on other topics. I’m one person who expressing the opinion that that area has been a shadow of its former self since the pandemic. I’m not denying the thefts and robberies have had an additional impact, but it already a shadow of its former self, way way fewer people than back in 2019.
- horns4lyfe 5y agoAre the windows boarded up to block out covid? Pretending that things like this don’t have an effect on the dynamic of urban areas is just willfully ignorant.
- mint2 5y ago> I mean the retail theft can’t be helping the downtown but… Proceeds to get responses that are fitting replies in the alternate universe where the comment was > Retail theft is not having an impact, it is entirely …