Memo to New Yorkers

[bluescribbler]

Also to People from New Jersey and Connecticut. Berkshire County, MA is not your playground! People live and work here. The hospitals here are overloaded. Governor Baker has implored you to stay home, yet still you come. Yesterday I watched a few cars drive by the home. I admit that this is not a statistically significant sample, but I feel that is illustrative. Out of 11 cars, 1 had CT plates, 2 had MA plates. The rest had NY plates. You're cleaning out the grocery stores of things the residents need to survive. I get it. I really do. You want to escape the hotbed of disease that is New York City. But, do you ever think that maybe you are bringing the disease to the people who live here? Given that we know that you could have the virus for as many as 14 days without symptoms and be contagious, you could be infecting the very people who cannot shelter in place or work from home. Please, please stay home. If you must come here, please bring enough food and other supplies so that you can self quarantine for at minimum 14 days. Self quarantine means do not leave the house, condo, Air Bnb where you choose to stay. Do not go to the store. Do not go out for a walk. do not hop on your bike for a spin around town. Do not take your kayak out on the river, pond or lake. Regardless of how healthy you feel, you may be infected and you may infect others. I repeat, Berkshire County is not your playground!

[Afromania]

1. Y'all need to chill with this shit. You act like N.Y. made this shit and some how we are

Spreading it single handedly. We have the whole fucking world pass thru this area and we are paying for it. Yet somehow, as we battle this with no help from the federal govt and people like you buying into the game that N.Y.ers are spreading this. We keep pressing on without pointing fingers at the hundreds of thousands that could have brought this here, on planes, on boats, in the cars. Not only are we not pointing fingers at the ones who will prolong this by being stupid elsewhere after we have beaten it.

[HotTeaBag]

5. Straight. Up.

[Eko]

2. Interesting.

"You want to escape the hotbed of disease that is New York City." What should they do?

[BeyondGeography]

3. So Bostonians who are hiding out in the Berkshires are OK

because they have MA plates but New Yorkers in, say, Columbia County, are baddies if they still get their food from Guido’s in Great Barrington?

Right.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. It's like you think there aren't any cases in Berkshire County.

[Indykatie]

6. WTF? Why Post This Here on DU? It Comes Off As a Crazy Screed.

I'm sure there are some folks from NY that have 2nd homes in Berkshire Country. That was the case with one of the consultants I worked with some years ago. MA has the 6th highest CV-19 case count in the country. I hope you aren't blaming a big part of it on NYC folks coming to shop in your area?