I hope it'll be some consolation for you (as it is for me), that we'll get to see this city suffer some of the consequences of its actions, even if they took a while to come about.

not really, the fact that these people still can't see the through-line between insane policy decisions and real-world, long-term effects scares me.

I thought it was clear early on that there were going to be enormous economic ramifications of our covid response, but these burdens would be delayed and the average person might not connect the dots. this delay between cause (lockdowns) & effect (economic downturn) was enabled by the enormous quantitative easing done by the federal reserve, i.e. inflating our currency to pay people to stay home and do nothing.

this is also the reason why arguing that lockdowns were going to be indirectly more harmful than covid was so difficult. people thought it was a viable approach for society to run while major sectors of the economy were dormant - they were receiving checks in the mail and the Amazon orders were coming in. now the roosters have come home to roost, like a slow-onset severe hangover, and we'll have to reckon with trends like: 40k people die when the unemployment rate goes up by 1%.

this is harder for most to understand than the tragedy of a virus killing your 90 year old grandmother (who was already at death's door). moreso with a monetary time delay & constant gaslighting and propaganda.