Given that we’re basically a bunch of global pariahs right now thanks to our seemingly bullish Covid variant and more so, now that President Joe Biden has just slapped a big fat ban on South Africans travelling into the US, it seems unlikely that you’re going to find yourself in New York City anytime soon.

This means no bagels and lox from Russ & Daughters. It means no sitting on a bench in Union Square watching the world speedwalk by. It means no Broadway (not that anything is happening in theatreland anyway right now), or whatever it is in particular about Manhattan that turns you on and makes us all return again and again...

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