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On cities, COVID, and cognitive dissonance.

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Noah Brier
Oct 07, 2020
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Noah here. This week the Mayor of New York City announced that they were going to start rolling back openings in nine zip codes across the city that had particularly high COVID rates. This meant stopping in-person school and closing non-essential businesses, including cutting off indoor and outdoor dining at local restaurants. The governor, who has ulti…

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