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The marathon thing is completely awful but has nothing to do with politics. What liberals have to do with it, I don't know. You're an idiot, yubba. Step off, because this is in really bad taste and is offensive to the actual situation and people who are suffering there now, regardless of politics.

It really needs to be cancelled, of course.

I know people in Staten Island are getting particularly riled up over it, though. It's supposed to pass through there, and the place got hit especially hard, lots of people having lost their homes, there's a lack of gas for the generators, many roads are still unusuable, and they're still pulling out dead bodies from some of the houses (my friend's former school is now a makeshift morgue there). It would be a travesty to run a marathon, close roads, and waste gas where people are still having trouble digging out their belongings and getting around as it is.

AFAIK from a first-hand source, there is indeed some bad neglect of Staten Island going on right now. Aside from the marathon, the restoring of services is really slow there, and the official response is sluggish - Verrazano Narrows bridge, for example, won't even waive the (already extortionate) toll, which is making it miserable for people who are trying to get their belongings off the island. There has been a lot of focus on getting Manhattan back in working order, but Staten Island is really struggling.