Caller · moment 12 of 20
Long Island Patriotism and Pandemic Numbness in New York
from #201 - A Sense Of Time (ft. Ray Kump) | The Tim Dillon Show · #201
4 min
Caller
They discuss Long Island's over-the-top patriotic displays, pot-banging for nurses turning into arrests if done for any other reason, and New York's declining but still dangerous COVID numbers.
- Tim recalls going with his father to watch Blue Angels flyovers at Jones Beach on Long Island with friends from a steakhouse.
- Long Island has an unending well of patriotism, Tim says, describing how after 9/11 people drove around honking horns and waving flags.
- Pot-and-pan banging for nurses during the pandemic—in Brooklyn, Tim notes, you'd be immediately arrested for it instead of applauded.
- Tim describes New York at roughly a third of peak pandemic cases and admits he stopped listening to pandemic updates a month and a half in.
- Poor pandemic response means the economy has to be ruined anyway, so staying home on St. Patrick's Day would have saved lives if people had actually done it.
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