With Phase II of reopening beginning Monday, June 22 in New York City, which allows for outdoor seating restaurants, de Blasio has predicted that up to 300,000 workers will return to work. However, the logic of the bosses is unforgiving, and has no respect for de Blasio’s optimism. The possibility of seating a handful of patrons on the sidewalk, in the middle of an ongoing pandemic and historic economic catastrophe, will not see us all back to work. Instead, beginning this Monday, temporary unemployment for many of us will become permanent unemployment.