Steven Schroeder | public health advisory
we are the other people
–Frank Zappa
you speak of a pandemic
of the unvaccinated,
and I wonder
what part of pan
demic you
do not understand.
you say you
might want to
wear a mask if
your social network includes people
who are vulnerable or
have not been
vaccinated (and I think I,
like you, live on a small sphere
in a universe inhabited
by people as fragile as you
and I and no doubt
vulnerable,
incapable of being
still, even for a moment,
where every body is
connected to
every other body)
or if you have children
(and I think children who are
vulnerable people who
as of this moment
cannot be vaccinated have to inhabit
the same small space as fragile
people like me, like you, so we
have them and they have us
and no one else and
I wonder why,
on earth,
we might want not to.
Chicago
22 July 2021
