I’d done exactly the same, even against the particular absurdity that tightly controlled vaccine doses could be found by word-of-mouth and the general New York knowledge that, no matter how early you think you are, there will always be masses of your neighbors that beat you to the punch.
Though the circumstances of the rush gave it an apocalyptic flavor, there didn’t seem to be any real human descent into chaos. No fistfights or shouting matches about who was in line, no storming of the gates. Just a lot of cold people, all desperate enough to chase down a lead so unlikely it could have been — and actually was — real.
That’s the spirit of my city alright. The “general new york knowledge” line strikes very true.
Though the circumstances of the rush gave it an apocalyptic flavor, there didn’t seem to be any real human descent into chaos. No fistfights or shouting matches about who was in line, no storming of the gates. Just a lot of cold people, all desperate enough to chase down a lead so unlikely it could have been — and actually was — real.
That’s the spirit of my city alright. The “general new york knowledge” line strikes very true.