post-pandemic after-times update - written 5/23/21

"is it too soon?" we collectively ask from the comfort of our superpower communities in the "First World,"knowing that the world's underdeveloped and underprivileged are the most vulnerable to repetitive surges of This Virus |ä bent nail in the board that is humanity" -- an anonymous commenter on my first web site, c. 1996 my journals were tomes of writerly self-absorption, of a girl and young woman figuring herself out anonymously -- too introverted and private to vent/rip/bare my spleen publicly for mass consumption