Witnessing Pandemic

Cheering for Doctors: Rage Against the dying of the Light

This isn't in the same vein as the other two posts I have made, but rather, is about the culture seemingly developing in New York in slow motion. Specifically, about how every day the shouting, whistling, honking, and general noise making occurring every day at 7 PM has gotten increasingly louder as Corona takes an increasingly larger toll on the City. At first, weeks ago, it was subdued and criticized for being a gesture and nothing else with numerous op eds in the NYT deriding it and from anecdotal evidence based off of family friends who are doctors or who work in the field many of them also think its stupid. It isn't even really developing into some sort of activity where people are communicating with each other because while some people are visible at their windows not all are and there are too few people at their windows for the amount of noise that is produced for it to be something that people feel the need to do while seen, at least in my opinion. This, in the grand scheme of things, ultimately isn't all that important, however, if the goal of this blog is to document the COVID-19 outbreak I do think it is an important thing to put down because while in quarantine it is one of the very few constants that still remains. Additionally, I think the reason it gets louder every single day, especially today after the announcement of required masks when outdoors and even tighter restrictions by governor Cuomo I think the general noisiness at 7 has taken on an outside cathartic role for New Yorkers' to express pent up rage and frustration at their current situation and the slow, choking, death of our city. All of which may be entirely unimportant but when all this is over I do think this communal activity is something that should be remembered in a light of the useful or useless ways people came together and dealt with the current pandemic. 

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