It’s the boredom and the terror in combination that make these days so sleepy and wrong, i.e., the terror is very much not gone. A month of everyone’s lives. When the British were rationing there was a cause, there were young people at a front to pray for. Now we’re all always dully at the front, people dying daily, some proportion of them daily specifically for the cause of Donald Trump not feeling embarrassed to wear a mask and admit he underestimated this disease. It’s almost impossible to remember what the vitality and righteousness of the women’s march three years ago felt like. The
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