Syncope7 t1_j6t7wsl wrote
Meh, fuck em. They’re buying up all of the available property and only living in it for 3 months out of the year.
What’s another 14 days of quarantine?
ReadsTheScience OP t1_j6t90rw wrote
Lol. At least your honest.
Gradating property taxes might be a better, and less illegal way to this.
trabblepvd t1_j6te6zc wrote
paying property taxes, and not even using the public facilities like schools. yea, fuck those people, rite?
MoreLab5278 t1_j6u7399 wrote
>Think about what you just said lmao.
I think pple are missing the note of sarcasm.
Syncope7 t1_j6thpx1 wrote
Think about what you just said lmao.
[deleted] t1_j6te4gw wrote
Yeah, I’ve got a bit of a problem with this beyond the parochialism.
If they’re paying property taxes, they have a right to be there. That was one of the reasons that Mass couldn’t ban Rhode Islanders working in MA.
The bad PR from this also came back and bit us in the ass when RI became one of the planet’s hardest-hit COVID hotspots, with some of the worst infection and death rates. We ended up needing a lot of help but opened up the crisis by denying help to others. Not a good look.
And the reason there are no houses is because of the NIMBYism that’s prevalent in the state, especially little towns that don’t want new residents that arrive after they arrived (of course, them building their house and moving in was just fine):
(Edit: Obviously the “COVID is just the flu” stuff in the original article is nonsense.)
jdmess401 t1_j6wufhx wrote
Edit: Expanding on my initial thoughts.
I agree with this. Also, if these New Yorkers had the forethought to take advantage and get out of a densely populated area to avoid exposure, chances are they’d continue to social distance and take precautions while they were here in RI. It’s the people who didn’t take precautions that were the issue, like the RI residents protesting at the statehouse refusing to wear masks and hosting parties just to spite everyone…
However, I have to believe part of the reason we ended up suffering so badly in the late summer and fall of 2020 was because we effectively reopened the state too early and became flooded with tourists from hotspot areas. We were doing really well before that. I recall seeing far more out-of-state plates than usual—not just in Narragansett and Newport, but even Oakland Beach in Warwick was overrun. There were posts about it in this sub at the time, too.
Of course, that’s not the only reason. It also didn’t help that hospital administrators across the state refused to make any adaptations for the second wave that we all knew was coming, but that’s a whole other issue…
[deleted] t1_j6x1v77 wrote
It’s possible, although everyone in my condo building was males when they went outside and walked around the halls. I was often the only masked person in the whole darn building. And this was pre-vaccine. One neighbor who was always unmasked ended up dying at RIH from the virus.
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