The affluent’s insistence on fleeing to more spacious but underprepared areas to escape covid-19 has been a well-documented subplot in our long global nightmare. In the Hamptons, overburdened officials have all but begged New York City governor Andrew Cuomo to shut down travel between the city and the swanky vacation hamlet. In Massachusetts, Martha’s Vineyard and Nantucket hospitals have issued statements asking people to stay away from their second homes.\n
In what might be one of the most proactive attempts to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, a string of North Carolina beach towns known as the Outer Banks limited visitors in late March, closing bridges and instating checkpoints barring even those with second homes.
But in the long tradition of all people accustomed to getting what they want, regardless of government guidelines or broader public interest, a group of out-of-state residents has filed a lawsuit demanding access to their beach houses.
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