Nov 2, 2020
Weird thing I’ve noticed: Nobody I know actually talks about the current situation by name. Nobody says ‘Corona’ or ‘COVID’, or really even ‘pandemic’. In conversation it’s only referred to in vague terms like ‘the way things are’ or just ‘y’know’.
Like, “I don’t have a bedframe. I had just moved in March and then, well, y’know.”
“I’ve been trying to figure out my school plans, but that’s getting hard because of the way things are.”
“I’d been planning on going to some conventions this summer but….yeah.”
I’d always found it hard to understand how societies in fantasy or sci-fi novels could just all agree at once to not say the name of the big scary threat, until now.
