Michael Simon Johnson

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This is Michael Simon Johnson.

I'm here with New York Times reporter Charlie Homans.

And we are... What neighborhood are we in, actually?

So we're about to go to one of these places.

Tell me about what this place is and then what its role is in this kind of network that you're talking about.

Well, it is very striking that this is like a sex shop, a really nice one, beautifully laid out, but also at the front there's this... Mutual aid.

Mutual aid.

Well, let's go downstairs.

I'm now walking past the sci-fi fantasy dildo section.

This is a lot.

Lots of boxes of diapers, lots of boxes of formula, wipes.

Just so I have a sense.

How many people have come by today, for example, to like pick up some... Hundreds of people.

But the goods are moving.

Wow, so they know.

What you're describing is a, at least citywide, I don't know exactly what the right word is.

I don't know if it's like...

You feel like you're doing something that is far more actionable.