Imbued with a refreshing sense of fatalism, this strange, frothy show has no bearing on the world outside. Shaad d’Souza couldn’t ask for anything more
I hate reading the news on any given day, but especially during Covid, and most of all during lockdown. The idea of keeping up to date with anything feels so deeply, deeply futile to me: at this particular point in time, headlines are likely to tell me that I can’t get vaccinated, that I can’t go outside, and that the reason I can’t go outside is because I’m not vaccinated.
At the press conference that took place the day I wrote this, Daniel Andrews said “Victory against this is absolutely within reach”; you could tell me it was a quote from anytime in the past 18 months and I’d believe you without question. It’s not that the news is particularly depressing – it’s that it’s totally the same every single day without fail, and I have no way of interpreting it outside this bizarre prism of sameness.
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