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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 23 Apr 2020

    There's probably a cultural essay to be written comparing the current anger at people who fled NYC during the pandemic with the anger many Brits felt toward those (like Auden & Isherwood) who left the UK before the WWII started. But who has the time?

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      1. Gedalia‏ @gedaliap 23 Apr 2020
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        True we’re all too busy feeding our sourdough starter.

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      1. é||è‏ @butchers_mind 23 Apr 2020
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        Not really analogous situations. Maybe if Auden fled the UK to go serve in the German army it’d be a closer parallel.

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      1. Robert Cherofsky‏ @Cherofsky 23 Apr 2020
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        Since you’re so eager, why don’t you tell us how you feel about it?

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      1. Dan Goldberg‏ @goldberg_dan 23 Apr 2020
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        I honestly don’t get the anger at the folks who left? Because it seems divorced from any thoughts of “by leaving you’re causing more spread” and instead is just like emotional outbursts around how they should stay for solidarity reasons?

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      1. NYC118  🇺🇦‏ @nyc118 23 Apr 2020
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        I’m actually very happy that there are fewer people in my building. I don’t care where they went.

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      1. Simon Watkins‏ @SimonyWaking 23 Apr 2020
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        Only hindsight distinguishes between those who had ‘the foresight to escape’ and those who ‘did not stand and fight’.

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      1. Studio Hermit‏ @studiohermitart 23 Apr 2020
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        Molly Crabapple took a swing at this on Twitter a few days ago.

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      1. Jerzy Jarmasz‏ @jjarmasz 23 Apr 2020
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        Wouldn't a more apt comparison be Londoners fleeing the plague of 1665?

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      2. Eurocrat‏ @Eurocrat2 24 Apr 2020
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        Hmmm. By leaving they do not contribute to the spread of COVID19 within NY, and if they left before they were infected, neither to the place they went to. I don't get the anger. You want less population in place, not more.

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