Traditional Relationships of Governance May Be Changing: Mr. Cameron Munter on Coronavirus Crisis in the US, Instinctive Solidarity and the Emerging Power of Local Authority

It’s not particularly scary or sad, but it’s striking that the essence of New York life — energy, noise, action — has been stilled, and now there’s more of a sense of solidarity and resilience, sadness and concern. From the middle of March, when the Americans finally woke up to the coronavirus crisis, New York has divided on class lines. The rich have fled, to the Hamptons beach communities on Long Island, to their cabins up the Hudson River, to their condominiums