From Stephen King’s new COVID novel Holly:
The reception area feels like a held breath. Holly starts the coffee maker. The visitor’s delivery is staccato and she keeps touching her mask to be sure it’s in place. “I can take this off, you know. I’m double-vaxxed and Covid negative. I took the home test just last night.” “Why don’t we wear them out here? We’ll take them off in my office and have some coffee.”
The mask needs to be on in the empty reception area but comes off in the office where the exact same two people are present. This is offered in complete seriousness as the only rational, science-based behavior.
Stephen King is truly the master of the horror genre.
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