Guns and Roses - Appetite for Destruction would be in the CD player…in fact it was - sorry, David.
I don’t have a problem with this. I was an “essential” employee in the before-times and I muddled through and never had an incident of sickness…I think my masking and sanitation saved me from hazard. I’m not downplaying the whole pandemic - I lost a few very good people because of it (I miss you, Russ).
The before-times are past…we need to work through the now times and that requires that we are together as people and a part of being present in the now-times is not hiding behind fear. We need to connect and see each others visage to gauge our connections.
Wear a mask if you have the sniffles (cold/flu), wear a mask if you want to avoid allergens or smoke in the air. Wear a mask if you, like me, are just plain ugly and it makes others more comfortable but do not wear a mask because of covid anymore. That threat is behind us as a people just as the Spanish Flu is behind us as a people, despite it’s presence in the world at large.
Get yourself a bit of Christopher Moore or some Neal Stephenson.
Tim Dorsey was great up until the end although there was a lot of same-ness about much of his work.
Work your way through Cory Doctrow’s catalog of unique fiction.
I love almost everything by Dean Koontz - he is a magical phrase turner.
You can always sell me on a Kaiju novel.