Why Us?

The writer and New Yorker Peggy Noonan points out in this column that, for the third time in 20 years, NYC has become the epicenter for a global crises -- 9/11, the 2008 meltdown, and now, COVID-19. 

And she asks a very simple, understable question: why us?

Because when you're the center of the world, as she indicates, "The city of skyscrapers draw the lightning." These types are horrors are "the privlege of living in the most exciting little landmass on the face of the earth."

Indeed. 

Queen Elizabeth II said, after 9/11, that grief if the price we pay for love. And this kind of nightmare is the kind of experience we pay for living in the great city of dreams, the most magical city in the world. 

And it's worth it. And it always will be.