I arrived in the US on the 3rd March, well before CV was a conscious thought, and I toured LA and Vegas without incident. I then stopped in Albuquerque, and after revisiting old friends I moved on to Chicago. Around South Wacker Drive I knew something was going on. I have been here several times before over time and it was very quiet. I walked down to Dylan’s Tavern and Grill on Sth Clinton and had the bar almost to myself. Everything was open and fully staffed but there weren’t many customers. Upstate New York was country and new. I couldn’t tell if things had changed in Albany but it looked subdued.
I arrived in NYC on the 11th March and by now CV had really became a thing, as the WHO declared a pandemic that day. Di Blasio closed the bars on the 16th March at 8:00PM. I was stuck in NYC, unable to contact an airline, any airline, until the 19th when I managed to book (and pay an inflated price due to the $AU crash) for a flight to Tokyo and on to Sydney. I managed to take some interesting photos while I waited, here they are;
This is the 9/11 memorial site on the 18th March at 12:00 noon.
WTC, the new subway station 18/3/20, around noon.
I was trying to decide what photo would best represent NYC dealing with it and this photo taken by me on a #1 train downtown local between 34th St Penn Station and South Ferry at 5:30 pm on a weekday (18th March 2020) says a lot.
More to come…
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