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6: COVID-19 outranks heart disease as the leading cause of death in the US.
Dec. 11: The FDA grants an emergency authorization for vaccines by Pfizer & will later do the same for Moderna on the 18th.
Dec. 14: The US death toll surpasses 300,000. Sandra Lindsay, a New York–based intensive care nurse, becomes the first person to receive a COVID vaccine in the US outside a clinical trial. She describes how important it was for her to get the shot as a Black woman. One governor says that this is the weapon that will end the war. As we soon see, the war has just begun.
SCENE 11: BATTLE
Our hero must engage in a battle between opposing forces. Armed with sword, saber, wands & words, they must defend what they believe in.
Jan. 6: Trump supporters storm the US Capitol, leading to the deaths of five people. Somewhere a poet writes in moonless light & all at once puts her pen down.
Jan. 7–8: Facebook & Instagram suspend Trump (later in June it is announced that this ban is for two years, ending in 2023). Twitter permanently bans Donald Trump for violating its glorification of violence policy.
SCENE 12: CLIMAX
Everything, it seems, has built up to this—a climax, a climb, high enough for us to see the pain, as well as the plain past it.
Jan. 20: Ext. Capitol Building—Day. Joe Biden is inaugurated as the forty-sixth president of the US, with Kamala Harris becoming the first-ever female vice president, as well as the first Asian American & African American to hold said position. Amanda Gorman, a skinny Black girl descended from slaves, becomes the youngest inaugural poet in US history. At exactly noon, sheer gray clouds bend & break for the day.
SCENE 13: RESOLUTION
The hero wipes down their sword, counts the dead. They are heading home, back to where it began. Head held high & bowed at the same time, they will never forget what happened here.
Jan. 20 continued: Construction of the Keystone XL pipeline is halted after President Biden revokes the permit of the project, which had planned to carry 800,000 barrels of oil from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast. Hours after his inauguration, President Biden announces in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the US will remain a member of the WHO, canceling the withdrawal planned by the previous administration.
Feb. 19: The US rejoins the Paris Climate Agreement.
Feb. 27: The FDA issues an emergency use authorization for the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID vaccine.
March 11: A year after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
March 12: The United States administers its 100 millionth vaccine. Cases drop.
April 13: President Biden announces that he will withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan by Sep. 11, the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, ending the country’s longest war. In August, the Taliban will take control of Kabul.
April 20: George Floyd’s killer is convicted on two counts of murder & one count of manslaughter. All over, we weep.
By late July, almost 4 billion vaccination doses have been administered worldwide. We unglue our foreheads from our knees, tug our hands away from our faces like masks. Beneath them our smiles are stripped down like breastplates after war.
Somewhere a reader reads this.
Does resolution exist if it is ongoing, unwritten, unread?
The part of the narrative where we see our hero as they see the world. We understand “normal” in terms of how we believe a story begins. Inspirational, insightful, inside us.
There is always someone missing from the music.
SCENE 14: THE UNORDINARY WORLD
The hero is different. Their universe is different. There is something new perched on the edge of the earth like a sun.
Hint at the movie’s sequel, DELTA VARIANT , coming later this year, as well as the third installment, LAMBDA .
Blackout.
Narrator’s voice rambles, soaking up the silence.
Cue protagonist theme melody from the beginning for a good bookend.
At the end of their journey, a hero may stand in the same place where their story
Dec. 11: The FDA grants an emergency authorization for vaccines by Pfizer & will later do the same for Moderna on the 18th.
Dec. 14: The US death toll surpasses 300,000. Sandra Lindsay, a New York–based intensive care nurse, becomes the first person to receive a COVID vaccine in the US outside a clinical trial. She describes how important it was for her to get the shot as a Black woman. One governor says that this is the weapon that will end the war. As we soon see, the war has just begun.
SCENE 11: BATTLE
Our hero must engage in a battle between opposing forces. Armed with sword, saber, wands & words, they must defend what they believe in.
Jan. 6: Trump supporters storm the US Capitol, leading to the deaths of five people. Somewhere a poet writes in moonless light & all at once puts her pen down.
Jan. 7–8: Facebook & Instagram suspend Trump (later in June it is announced that this ban is for two years, ending in 2023). Twitter permanently bans Donald Trump for violating its glorification of violence policy.
SCENE 12: CLIMAX
Everything, it seems, has built up to this—a climax, a climb, high enough for us to see the pain, as well as the plain past it.
Jan. 20: Ext. Capitol Building—Day. Joe Biden is inaugurated as the forty-sixth president of the US, with Kamala Harris becoming the first-ever female vice president, as well as the first Asian American & African American to hold said position. Amanda Gorman, a skinny Black girl descended from slaves, becomes the youngest inaugural poet in US history. At exactly noon, sheer gray clouds bend & break for the day.
SCENE 13: RESOLUTION
The hero wipes down their sword, counts the dead. They are heading home, back to where it began. Head held high & bowed at the same time, they will never forget what happened here.
Jan. 20 continued: Construction of the Keystone XL pipeline is halted after President Biden revokes the permit of the project, which had planned to carry 800,000 barrels of oil from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast. Hours after his inauguration, President Biden announces in a letter to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres that the US will remain a member of the WHO, canceling the withdrawal planned by the previous administration.
Feb. 19: The US rejoins the Paris Climate Agreement.
Feb. 27: The FDA issues an emergency use authorization for the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) COVID vaccine.
March 11: A year after the WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic.
March 12: The United States administers its 100 millionth vaccine. Cases drop.
April 13: President Biden announces that he will withdraw all US forces from Afghanistan by Sep. 11, the twentieth anniversary of 9/11, ending the country’s longest war. In August, the Taliban will take control of Kabul.
April 20: George Floyd’s killer is convicted on two counts of murder & one count of manslaughter. All over, we weep.
By late July, almost 4 billion vaccination doses have been administered worldwide. We unglue our foreheads from our knees, tug our hands away from our faces like masks. Beneath them our smiles are stripped down like breastplates after war.
Somewhere a reader reads this.
Does resolution exist if it is ongoing, unwritten, unread?
The part of the narrative where we see our hero as they see the world. We understand “normal” in terms of how we believe a story begins. Inspirational, insightful, inside us.
There is always someone missing from the music.
SCENE 14: THE UNORDINARY WORLD
The hero is different. Their universe is different. There is something new perched on the edge of the earth like a sun.
Hint at the movie’s sequel, DELTA VARIANT , coming later this year, as well as the third installment, LAMBDA .
Blackout.
Narrator’s voice rambles, soaking up the silence.
Cue protagonist theme melody from the beginning for a good bookend.
At the end of their journey, a hero may stand in the same place where their story
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