A Connecticut friend who works for a respected, well-established auto mechanic shop told me yesterday that many regular clients have left Fairfield County for the presumably safer environs of rural Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. I don’t blame them. To go by the latest N.Y. Times chart, the New York tristate area is a coronavirus hell hole. Certainly compared to Los Angeles.
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From “The President Is Trapped,” a 3.25 Atlantic piece by Peter Wehner:
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