You cannot legislate music to lockstep nor can you legislate the spirit of the music to stop at political boundaries—

We thought Things were Bad, because people were dying. And then more people died, and more people died, and more people died.

What happens when you combine a highly contagious disease with individual selfishness and collective confusion and instituional dysfunction and political ruthlessness is no longer a rhetorical question.

A thing that money buys you is distance. A thing that distance buys you is safety.

Distance is relative. Safety is relational. Deaths are mere statistics until you know their names.

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