Valentine’s cards line every aisle like nothing happened in the last year. Plastic roses, heart-shaped boxes, balloons that squeak under fluorescent lights. Meanwhile, hospitals still fill with people who can’t breathe. Love may be blind, but it’s apparently immune to basic math too. If Cupid shows up this year, he’d better wear PPE.
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