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Documenting the grim anniversary of the coronavirus-spurred lockdowns with an Opinion series entitled “The Week Our Reality Broke,”
The New York Times's
usual liberal obsessions of inequality were livened up by a disturbing diatribe that proposed a resettlement tax on New Yorkers who escaped the failing Democratic city during the pandemic.
Under the foreboding headline “They Left New York During Covid. Make Them Pay,” one would have hoped op-ed writer Luke Winkie was being somewhat tongue-in-cheek in his angry, almost ethnocentric vituperation of the supposedly fake New Yorkers who dared to temporarily escape the pandemic-stricken city in early 2020 as the death toll escalated and no one knew what was going on.