And two years ago the WHO declared a pandemic and now we are supposed to behave as though it is over and COVID-19 as modestly endemic as the common cold. Who needs masks? Who needs social distancing? Who cares about vulnerable populations? I don't know if I could feel disillusioned by 2020, but it was impressive to realize how many people really just wanted me and just about everyone I cared for dead in the casual, impersonal sort of way where the likelihood of our deaths troubled them less than any alternative which might personally inconvenience them. And they still do, and the country has decided it is more important to placate them than protect anyone else, and I don't know when I will ever visit a museum again. After an optimistic start to the week, my physical health flattened me and I wouldn't be enjoying this concentration of pain no matter what, but the reminder of all the crowds unmasking like it's 2019 that I am seen as so very expendable certainly isn't improving the experience. I have not felt very much like placating people for a long time now.
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- 1: Here we are half-awake
- 2: We just want to go to a stately home built in the Georgian style
- 3: Sit thee down and put them on
- 4: My life's a crooked mess of things I've broken with my head
- 5: ?פֿאַר װאָס זאָל איך אײַך געבן דירה-געלט אַז די קיך איז צעבראָכן
- 6: A second flood, a simple famine, plagues of locusts everywhere
- 7: So Krishna stole the butter, did he?
- 8: When I invited Frank and you back to mine for a mange tout when I meant ménage à trois
- 9: The shadows on the walls don't recognize me anymore
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