How COVID is Affecting My Perception of TV
![She referenced Billie Eilish, so this must be getting pretty close to the pandemic. But we've seen the last two years in-universe, so if it's set in the future, they must be in at least 2023 by now. [*adds thumbtacks and string to wall*] Set in the Present](https://giantpaper.org/app/uploads/2020/11/set_in_the_present.png)
This was me for the past 4 months or so, but instead of me being confused by movies/TV shows set in modern times, I’ll be like “hey, they’re not physical distancing” to movies/TV shows set in the past, future, in space, etc.
(In One Piece—a series written well before COVID, set in an alternate world, there’s several episodes with scenes showing a bunch of doctors geared up in surgical gowns, eye coverings, masks, gloves, etc and I thought “cool”. Then when they removed their eye coverings and masks, I was like “NO DON’T TAKE OFF THE MASKS”. Then “oh wait”)
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