But the bosses told everyone not to worry, because first of all, nothing was happening, at most a mass hallucination, and second of all, even if there was something happening, it was a freak thing in a freak town that would never happen to New York City, the citiest of cities, the impermeable, impenetrable, not with them at the helm, no, and third of all, it didn’t look that bad. But fourth of all, it definitely wasn’t real.
