Epidemiologists friends warn me that the novel coronavirus may soon be overtaken by the short story coronavirus, which will entail a briefer period of sickness but somehow be more devastating.
@Shteyngart Personally, I am dreading the ABBA sub-variant of the sonnet form of the virus. Meanwhile, the haiku variant is ripping through the far east.
@Shteyngart Yeah they call it reverse elongation or flacid Elon.
@Shteyngart @GreatDismal A paragraph sounds terrible, but we can all agree a sentence will be the end
@Shteyngart @jeffjarvis The flash fiction variant used to be called "Merry at breakfast, dead by dinner."
@Shteyngart @EllenDatlow Yes actually. The acute phase is gonna get less intense but the long term damage will stay the same or get worse.