Headlines like "virus may never go away", "virus will define a generation", "virus means we will need a new normal", "governments failing to respond to viral threat"

like oooOOOHHHHhhh imagine the horror

Y'all throw out the word ~*unprecedented*~ and the gays are just like

I'm not intending to be insensitively flippant but I am drawing some extremely bleak amusement from the gravity of some of these headlines as if these concepts are at all a novel thing for a whole group of us.

There's a reason prides were cancelled as soon as it seemed even marginally necessary and without so much as a blip of complaint or protest from the community. Shit's not new. We can suspend literally all our events and lives without having a total fucking meltdown over it.

Communities learning how cope with a pandemic and re-imagine life in a way to heal from the past and deal with the future? Uncertain prospects of prevention, treatments, cures, and personal responsibility? Welcome to the club.