<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Sorry, but this was too rich. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">From the general overview blurb</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/live-coronavirus-news-cases-deaths.html" class="">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/16/us/live-coronavirus-news-cases-deaths.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-1fanzo5"><div class="css-53u6y8"><h2 class="css-k667mn eoo0vm40" id="">Defying state rules, Atwater, Calif., declares itself a ‘sanctuary city’ for businesses.</h2><p class="css-nnwssh evys1bk0">The
City of Atwater, Calif., declared itself a “sanctuary city for all
businesses” at a special meeting on Friday, openly defying the state’s
coronavirus orders, after a chorus of business owners showed up to voice
their support for the measure.</p></div><aside class="css-ew4tgv" aria-label="companion column"></aside></div><div class="StoryBodyCompanionColumn css-1fanzo5"><div class="css-53u6y8"><p class="css-nnwssh evys1bk0">“It’s
not the government’s job to protect my health, it’s their job to
protect my rights, and they’re being taken away, so thank you for giving
them back to us,” Ron Danel, who owns a company that makes gravestones,
said to the City Council.</p><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I’m sure among the many anecdotes the reporter could have chosen, this one was perhaps especially enticing.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Eric</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></body></html>