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When the virus has been beaten
And I can move around with ease,
I’ll try to find my passport
So I can travel as I please.
I’ll shop in France
And try on pants
Too young to match my style
And with effort and a prison file
(A process that might take a while
I know that I can make them fit
Unless of course I have to sit.
I’ll try new sports
I’ll ride a horse
Assuming he will let me.
I’ll buy new toys
And make some noise
So no one will forget me.
I’ll visit London, Spain and Rome
And when at last I circle home
I’ll contentedly remove my shoes
And catch up on the evening news:
An asteroid is approaching Earth
Our only hope is Colin Firth
There’s volcanoes and tsunamis
A strange shortage of salamis
An alien invasion
A leprosy contagion
Archaeologists hatched a hydra’s egg
And all of Europe’s a powder keg.
But after what 2020 did to me
I’ll just smile, and nod, and make some tea
The year is 2023
And nothing you say can frighten me
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It's so hard seeing people now just pretending as though the Covid situation is over. But I also understand it. The human brain and body weren't meant to handle this much stress for this long. Stress activates the fight versus flight mechanism, and there's nothing to fight --
-- so after a while flight kicks in and we run from thinking about the problem. And there's also the issue of trauma, which happens *after* a given event. Trauma is how we process a stressful or painful situation. But we've been caught in that stressful situation now for --
-- months, and there's been no relief during which we could process that, and address the trauma, so we're getting it from both sides, the current tension *and* the brain's desperate need to process the trauma and put it behind us, which it can't do while it's all ongoing --
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Thank you for those generous words. I wish that the show was not as relevant as it seems to be today, that the themes we explored would, by now, be considered out of date and passe, but it seems that this is not to be our reality, at least for the present moment. In general --
-- I think one can rarely go wrong in looking to the patterns of history to repeat themselves, an assumption that underscored B5 and landed us here...but there is another side to this pattern. The Black Death led directly to the Renaissance; the repressive 50s summoned a --
-- counter-reaction in the more liberal 60s. But by the same token, the awfulness of WW1 and the Great Depression gave us Fascists and Nazis. A similar moment awaits us. Once this is over -- and it will be, once a vaccine is delivered -- the world will need a moment to --
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A (far too) long thread concerning ideas/stories, why people shouldn’t send them to professional writers, and why they need to either accept that stipulation or find other accounts to follow.

To speak from my experience: I’ve been interacting with fans online for almost thirty--
--years, since the days of 28.8 modems and BBSs. These have been daily conversations, not just when there’s something to promote. The jmsnews system has something like 88,000 messages I’ve posted over the years. Like @neilhimself, I put in hours every single day corresponding--
--with folks, time that could be used to create our own stories, movies, shows and the like. But we make that time because we are fans ourselves, and we want to give back, knowing how much it would have meant to us if some of the writers we followed were this freely accessible.--
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