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“Hey now, hey now now, sing this corrosion to me”
Happy Friday! President Biden just declared Monkey pox a public health emergency! Whee! TGIF! Fun plans for the weekend, let’s go get em!!
So, I was just taking a gander through the wondrous landscape of Medium and catching up on reading some of my favorite writers on here when I received the by now all too familiar “ping” on my phone which then brought this bit of news up and gosh, isn’t this just SO very familiar to us all now?
Okay, so we now have TWO simultaneous ongoing public health issues. While also having a raging and unabated climate catastrophe. In addition to inflation. Don’t forget: an ineffective government. Remember to add in a dash of stagnant wages. Add a dollop of the Ukrainian War. Mix together well with demagogues, fascism, and oh yeah, don’t forget to top it all off with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, because THAT is just the poisonous cherry on top
This is all so utterly and completely bizarre that I absolutely LONG for someone like EA Poe (“My Uncle Edgar” as I refer to him) to be here to pen the sequel to “The Mask of the Red Death” because that’s what all this feels like.
Am I the only one feeling this way right now?
