As a journalist myself I applaud NYT for trying to cover COVID-19 thru a different lens. Think a major problem with this article is the quote selection. Just so cheesy at times.
“Slipping through the cracks of society a little bit. Skaters have almost been preparing for this moment their entire lives.”
“It’s all these weird twisty, turny, windy areas and you’re kind of just navigating them, and it feels like there’s like a synergy — or some sort of like relationship between you and the spaces that you’re moving through.”
It's hard, because while those quotes were actually said, I cringe if that's the best these guys came up with after even just a few minutes of sitting down. Like yo, I get it, half these guys probably gave you a bunch of zonked-out quotes but you can do better. Like Shawn Powers and Yaz Wilkerson's quotes were decent. More of those.