He says he’d be scared if it got quiet. If there was a lull in Covid over the summer. “That would scare me more,” he says, “than if we continued to see cases ongoing.” Because that would mean another wave is coming.
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Why does that give me a little thrill? I mean… it’s not that I want it to happen. But when I hear an expert confirm my worst fear…? I feel that racy sense of wanting it.
‘Disaster Desire,’ I call it.