L u c k y D r aw M i c h e l l e Y o o n M e i S u
“So, how was it today?” “It was okay. The usual, you know.”
We talk on-screen every first Monday of the month and this is how our conversation would start. I am starting to forget how his body attaches to his legs—we never stand far enough from our devices, and we never meet in person anymore. Not since 15 October 2021. Honestly, though, it wasn’t okay. It never is, although that’s what I always say. I hate doing the SCS. It’s short for Safe COVID-19 Strategies but really, it means Stab-Choke-Swab. Why haven’t they found a better way to do this? “Still negative?”
“Yeah, still negative.” “That’s good, right?”
I want to scream at him. I’m stabbed twice every month— once for the live virus, once for the test-vaccine—and then later I’m choked with a probe as they swab my insides. How is this good? I want to yell at him, but instead, I say— “Yeah, it’s good.”
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