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Hot Girl Summer? Nope. It’s Hot Covid Dystopia, and Y’all Still Won’t Mask Up
This summer was supposed to be the recovery. Instead, it’s the spread.
Sometimes I think we’re living in an alternate, dark timeline that went wayward. This is why I refuse to watch the TV show The Handmaid’s Tale. Why should I watch a show about a dystopian nightmare when it feels like we’re living in one currently? I don’t need to see that documentary at all.
Climate change got us hot as hell, Earth is literally caving in (in Germany, for example), and some dudebro billionaires are doing a circle jerk space race for no damb reason besides the fact that they wanna emit their small dick energy.
All of this as we’re in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
Four million people have died worldwide in 18 months from Covid-19. Four million people have lost their lives. Four million people have been buried by those who knew and loved them. You would think, after all of that, we’d be sitting somewhere trying to figure out how to get right, avoid Earth throwing us off it, and be better human beings. But noooo, we’re too busy arguing about why we don’t wanna wear masks and pissing off scientists who work really hard to keep us alive despite us refusing to do our part.
This time last year, in the summer of 2020, the best we could do was to socially distance ourselves in backyards and parks from those we love. It was best that we didn’t get within six feet because we were knee-deep in coronavirus spread. Now, we are actually able to be in close proximity (and maybe even hug) those we love because scientists from around the world have worked tirelessly to come up with vaccines that mostly protect us from Covid and will keep most of the people who take it out of hospitals. But less than half of those eligible to get it in these un-United States have gotten it.
Now, what should have been a completely controlled situation is running rampant again because millions of people refuse to get fully vaccinated. In the middle of it, Covid is doing the matrix backbend and mutating in ways we weren’t prepped for. Now we have this new delta variant that is dropkicking us through the goalposts…
