March 22, 2021 - From Issue No. 8 - 2020 - Revisiting Mayor de Blasio’s infamous tweet.

March 2, 2020

In early March the idea that Covid-19 would simply blow into the city and then blow out of town just as quickly as it came was becoming less and less common. We knew we were in for something, though we didn’t know what. March 2nd, 2020 was the day of Mayor de Blasio’s infamous “New Yorkers should go on with your lives + get out on the town . . .” tweet. He must have meant well, with a bit of film criticism to boot. The tweet is reprinted in its entirety, below.

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Since I’m encouraging New Yorkers to go on with your lives + get out on the town despite Coronavirus, I thought I would offer some suggestions. Here’s the first: thru Thurs 3/5 go see “The Traitor” @FilmLinc. If “The Wire” was a true story + set in Italy, it would be this film.

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