We are in the waiting room leafing through Time, remembering Life. Wisconsin is running out of ICU beds. Harry and Meghan are renovating their new place in Santa Barbara. Everyone in her right mind is masked, of course, because not only are we waiting for some resolution to the constitutional crisis, we are also living in the midst of a pandemic with covid cases rising every day. 160,000. 177,000. It's a lot to ask. We are only human after all and require, deluded as we are, some base level of certainty. But this is the period between the MRI and the diagnosis and nothing is certain. We are waiting for a specialist, or maybe a bearded prophet, to lead us out of this wilderness and into the promised land where a safe and effective vaccine will be universally available, all pre-existing conditions will be covered, the electoral college will recede in the rearview mirror, and black Americans will not be identified for target practice. In the meanwhile, we are in limbo as we steal glimpses of redemption engineered in Georgia and try to keep the sulfurous stink of the enemies of democracy at bay.
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We are in the waiting room leafing through Time, remembering Life. Wisconsin is running out of ICU beds. Harry and Meghan are renovating their new place in Santa Barbara. Everyone in her right mind is masked, of course, because not only are we waiting for some resolution to the constitutional crisis, we are also living in the midst of a pandemic with covid cases rising every day. 160,000. 177,000. It's a lot to ask. We are only human after all and require, deluded as we are, some base level of certainty. But this is the period between the MRI and the diagnosis and nothing is certain. We are waiting for a specialist, or maybe a bearded prophet, to lead us out of this wilderness and into the promised land where a safe and effective vaccine will be universally available, all pre-existing conditions will be covered, the electoral college will recede in the rearview mirror, and black Americans will not be identified for target practice. In the meanwhile, we are in limbo as we steal glimpses of redemption engineered in Georgia and try to keep the sulfurous stink of the enemies of democracy at bay.