Normally I avoid cliches like the plague but this coronavirus has transformed the landscape. My old friend Kay Passa tells me that “corona’ is Spanish for “crown”, a virus with impressive pedigree but surely we have have fought “against the famine and the crown” for long enough. No St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Manhattan this year and mass transit, normally packed to the gunwales of a morning rush hour, is sedate and subdued – a seat on the downtown train is guaranteed, uptown or down...
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