“After testing positive for COVID last week, I entirely lost my sense of smell and my sense of taste. The symptoms which prompted me to get tested were too mild to even mention, but when I tasted my coffee the following morning and found it as odorless and tasteless as tap water, my first thought was, ‘Please, God, not that,’ although I suspect my guardian angel’s first thought was, ‘Oh, he’s needed something like this for quite awhile.’ As usual, my guardian angel was right.”
-from On Getting COVID And Losing My Sense Of Taste And Smell, my latest for CiRCE
There are still faint glimmers of civilization left in this barbaric slaughterhouse that was once known as humanity. 