Clowns to the Left of Me, Jokers to the Right, Here I Am, Stuck in the Middle of This Pandemic With You

Comedians and the comedy industry still cannot agree on how to deal with COVID-19, 18 months in

We’ve done it, America!

As of today, more than 677,000 Americans have died from the COVID-19 pandemic, surpassing the numbers who died here during the misnamed “Spanish Flu” pandemic of 1918-1920. The previous century’s pandemic, whose first reported cases originated not in Spain but on a U.S. Army base in Kansas (Kansas!), ultimately killed many million…