June 20, 2020
Original: 2017 (1779), Everyone's an Epidemiologist (2300) (graphics)
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Two people are walking, both wearing face masks.
Person 1: Can't wait for this stupid year to be over.
They come to a fallen-down tree.
Person 2: I can. This year made the future scarier. So much of why 2020 was bad was because of the things it sent us into 2021 without.
Person 2 is now walking along the tree.
Person 1: You gotta have hope, though.
Person 2: You say that, but you also said all this awful stuff couldn't happen, and it did. You're as clueless as the rest of us.
Person 1 is now also walking along the tree.
Person 1: Well, if we're wrong about which bad things can happen, it's gotta make us at least a little less sure about which good things can't.
Person 2 is jumping off the tree.
Person 2: I guess.
They're both walking along the ground again.
Person 2: But we don't have a cool eclipse here to look forward to like in 2017. And it's not even prime, either.
Title text: I intended to make and post this back in March, but didn't get around to it then. Since then it seems to have become even more applicable. I hope what's going on right now actually works to make things better this time…