Y'all are worried about all of the bad fiction that will be written about the pandemic, when you should worry about all of the bad nonfiction that is currently being written about the pandemic.

Fiction is easy to ignore because, one, y'all don't read it or share it on social media anyway. Like. It's the ubiquity of the CoronaContentFarm that you should be worried about.

Like, why does the prospect of a novel about the lockdown and quarantine feel cheap and irritating to you while all of the listicles and articles and essays about QuarantineFeels(TM) somehow feels morally urgent and aesthetically robust??? Like. Fix your wig.

"It's too soon!" they cry out while reading 10 articles a day about the curious sadness of staying indoors. PLS.

Some of y'all just hate fiction. And some of y'all are fiction writers who feel weirdly protective and proprietary toward experience and you resent the prospect of someone else mining a collective cultural moment before you get your say.

That's all I'll say about that.