Monthly Archives: April 2020

Covid Metamorphoses #35 – Number

So we were talking last week, the other adult in the house and I, wondering if the reported number of Covid deaths were being kept artificially low. We live in a small enough town that we hear things from people … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #34 – Certainty

In these uncertain times… It’s getting so you can’t turn on the TV, or look at your computer, or open an e-mail, without seeing that phrase. Which leads me to wonder when exactly things were certain. Were they certain in … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #33 – Flag Update

So remember our neighbor, across the street and to the right with their insane flag of Trump astride a tank? Hold on…here it is. So I never ended up confronting him or his wife. I’ve only seen them a couple … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #32 – Every Day Is Like Monday

Here at Quarantine Elementary School, where the teacher/student ratio is almost always 1:1–unless the student is in one of their moods, or the teacher is checking their e-mail during a lesson–we are rapidly running out of motivation. Some mornings we … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #31 – Mania

The way I know that I’m not bipolar is that even as I calculated the math in my head–2000miles divided by 35miles per gallon equals let’s say 70 gallons of gas which at $1.30 per gallon means less than $100–for … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #30 – Facts

In the past two months, I have read–and this is just from reputable sources: The virus was able to survive in the air for six hours and on surfaces for two weeks. Now we aren’t sure if it can survive … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #29 – Every day is 9/11

If the Coronavirus has taught us anything–and it’s teaching us more every day–it’s that this country overreacted the fuck out of 9/11, and that all the people on the far-right were hypocritical fascists-in-waiting when they took the opportunity to turn … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #28 – Kemp

While I was working late yesterday afternoon, Georgia governor Brian Kemp–my Georgia, my governor–announced the state would be reopening some of its businesses on Friday. The list is almost comically random: fitness centers, bowling alleys, body art studios, barbers, hair … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #27 – Paul

Yeah, we watched the One World: Together at Home special. We knew it was going to be a piece of shit, but there was an appeal in having a collective TV experience, simultaneous like how we used to in the … Continue reading

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Covid Metamorphoses #26 – Delusion

I told myself I was going to ignore the protester in Michigan and Ohio screaming that they wanted to go back to work, chanting “Lock her up!” at the Michigan governor. I was going to ignore them in their trucks … Continue reading

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