A vanity license plate, spotted in Maine.
She stared numbly through the rain hitting her windshield, wondering if she were dreaming. There it really was, on the car in front of her, the truth of her life this year, the truth of everyone's life. 2020WTF.
The generation coming into their 20s in the coronaviral age. Leaving college with a stay-at-home diploma, the prospects for career and family will be different from those faced by any generation in memory.
"As one of the Quarantennials, my education promises almost nothing. There will be no work for me, or anyone, in my chosen field, no promise of income, no practical dreams of home and family. It's true for almost everyone I know."
4π 2π
Evil flourishes when good people say nothing.
Speak out and stand up for what you believe, because our silence enables violence.
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The opening line of a disarmingly transparent effort to get your SSN, passwords and credit card number.
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1π 1π
True of COVID-19 sufferers and of George Floyd. The key phrase at this moment in American history.
"I can't breathe, said Floyd as he was being suffocated. "I can't breathe" thought more than 100,000 victims as they were dying of Covid. "I can't breathe" chanted countless Americans in the streets, protesting enduring police brutality.
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No signs of disease. Possibly infectious. Ready to party!
They were young, ayyysymptomatic, and heading for the beach.
Pandemic precautions so obvious that they should not have to be explained.
Don't stand in the midst of a crowded bar, don't hug and kiss strangers, don't take selfies with friends... because it could kill you. Yes, really. Lots of people already know this. It's called social duhstancing.