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Friends in high places

spent some time last winter in Florida, the continental US’ biggest peninsula and, many would argue, its biggest nuthouse. Virtually no one wore masks, even though on one Sunday the state had more new Covid cases than all of Europe, despite having 721 million fewer people. “What was I doing there?” I hear you cry. It’s a long story and not the one I’m

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