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Blogger's Block In The Time Of Plague

8/6/2021

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​BLOGGER'S BLOCK IN THE TIME OF PLAGUE

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​        The other day I was talking to a friend who had just returned from a trip to Iceland. She'd had a wonderful time and described for me the details of her experience: the volcanoes, the waterfalls, the hot springs, the hikes, the food, the fresh bread and pastries, the midnight sun, the shaggy wild ponies, the puffins, the beluga whales, the pervasive serenity of the place.
        I was thoroughly enjoying hearing about my friend's trip and seeing the wonderful images in my mind, 
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​... when somehow, into the conversation slithered the subject of COVID. That was the end of puffins, ponies, pastries, and all the other Icelandic charms and the return to the same old depressing talk of sickness, virus, contagion, mutations, variants, hospitals, ventilators, fear, worry,
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​...not to mention aggravation with the millions of people in this country, where the COVID vaccine supply is copious and free to everyone, who by their refusal to be vaccinated are keeping the pandemic alive, kicking, spreading and mutating.
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    It was after I hung up with my friend that it hit me: This is the way it always goes. Every conversation, no matter where it starts, always ends up at COVID. Call a friend, a loved one,  anyone, and whatever your reason for calling, COVID will eventually seep into the conversation. Anyone you talk to about anything at all, small talk, deep talk, meaningful talk, meaningless talk - it's not even that COVID is the fall back subject like, say, the weather; it's that COVID it the fall to subject; all talk will eventually fall to COVID.
       This is because COVID has not only infected the lungs of the afflicted but the minds of everyone. And how could our minds not be infected? You can't look at a newspaper or go to any any news outlet without being hit with the latest COVID update.
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​       You can't turn on the radio to hear the news without COVID being the top story. 
​      I don't feel like blogging about COVID all the time, but if one is 
chronicling contemporary life, then one is chronicling COVID. COVID pushes aside the rest of life, hogs the stage, demands to be front and center. So my blogger's dilemma is this: write about life, which means writing about COVID, or try to ignore COVID and write about something else, which means not writing about life. But then I expect that's how it's always been for recorders of daily life in times of plague. I guess it's no wonder that I'm often fighting blogger's block these days. I guess it's no wonder I've been fighting blogger's block for the past four-and-a-half years. 
​      It's just one #$%! plague after another.
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