It’s Your Patriotic Duty to Stay Indoors

We’ve been taught that eating out, shopping, and spending time together is a form of American resilience. Not this time.

Tom Kludt
GEN
Published in
4 min readMar 16, 2020

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A woman takes a selfie in front of the closed New York Public Library. Photo: David Dee Delgado/Getty Images

TThe most lasting remarks given by former President George W. Bush after 9/11 didn’t come during his Oval Office address on the night of the attacks, in a speech weeks later before a joint session…

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Tom Kludt
GEN
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Tom Kludt is a journalist in Brooklyn whose work has appeared in Vanity Fair, The Guardian and MEL. He previously worked at Talking Points Memo and CNN.