Anyone with a fetish for reading obituaries
will discover a gold mine of entertainment
in the newspapers of late with the number
of pages devoted to the dearly departed
bearing little resemblance to those of only
a year before. Anyone doubting that the
novel coronavirus is a real pathogenic threat
to the survival of those vulnerable to its
predations need only explain to themselves
where all these 'excess death' memorials
emanate from. The newspapers print fewer and
fewer pages of news, and what is published
is monopolized by global news of the chaos
wrought by SARS-CoV-2, its mutations and
rising levels of contagion and lethality for there
is scant room available for news reports on any
other events barring volcanic eruptions, regional
conflicts and a royal approaching his 100th year
succumbing to the weariness of life as an amoeba.
COVID-19 is news; all else mere commentary.
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