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Blocked at my school :/ you can use Firefox's (probably Chrome's as well) reader mode to bypass the paywall though.

If you are using Brave or Firefox, you can just use "reader mode" to bypass the paywall.

How do you enable reader mode in Brave?

For Brave 1.5.5 you toggle: Settings -> Accessibility -> Simplified view.

After making this change, the option to switch views will appear at the bottom of the screen, but only if Brave detects/decides that the page is suitable for this view.

Edit: Since Brave is built on chromium, other versions of Brave have a similar feature via chrome://flags/#enable-reader-mode

It seems that a number of publications have lowered there paywalled for coronavirus articles. As an important public service article, it seems like a crappy thing for the NYT to keep it up.

I suspect because its an opinion piece, not actual news.

That's a funny business model for a news site.

Paywall everything except really important critical news which isn't an opinion piece and end up in a situation where 99% of your site is paywalled. So basically almost everything written isn't important enough to consider reading.