Everything Is Fine And Things Are Going Normally

Haha, just kidding. I’m writing this from COVID isolation!

The first indication that Christmas was once again going to be an aberration came when my boyfriend, with whom I had just spent several days in Buffalo, New York, informed one of our group chats that he had tested positive for COVID-19 last Monday. Naturally I hauled myself to the closest testing place a few blocks from my apartment, a place owned by a private company that I would later find charged me $340 for a rapid test administered by a woman who…