I remember when they built the field hospital in Central Park. There’s something really weird about knowing you’re in the center of a crisis, that the hospital they’re interviewing people in front of is the hospital you had your children in.
If you’re reading this, you’ve survived a once-in-a-lifetime (hopefully) pandemic. You’ve done that thing, that unprecedented thing that you might have always feared; you’ve lived through the kind of stuff they make horror movies about.
So Facebook is going to do cute interviews in the Metaverse and we’re all supposed to pretend that we didn’t read all that horrifying stuff in the Facebook leaks document dump?
"If your party has a faction of people who believe Democrats eat children and worship Satan, that makes it a lot easier for people to buy that Democrats stole the election."
“The political paranoiac can’t stomach society as it is and thus seeks to destroy it under the guise of some looming threat: a deep state, antifa, migrant caravans, transgender bathrooms, an international pedophile ring,” Bennett Parten recently wrote
Much of the coverage that’s not outright cynical is also failing to meet the moment. The NY Times published a map that shows a “predicted decline in legal abortions.” Antiseptic language like that does not serve the reader. newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/61af…
It’s been 632 days since the World Health Organization officially declared COVID-19 a pandemic. March 11, 2020, was the date, but I knew our lives weren’t going to be normal for a very long time as soon.....