4 May

Dolly did a long selfie video to explain why she’s disappeared from performing. Her immune system stopped working. You can fool yourself Covid is a nothing burger for a while. Dolly is a master of putting a happy face on terrible things. The comfort people take from doing just what everybody else is doing (nothing), that camaraderie of happy ignorance? When you become chronically ill, nobody will care. The chronically ill are abandoned. They’re like a fart in the shared elevator, an awkward obstruction to fun lifestyles. Ask them. Adolescent culture does no risk management. It won’t act on climate change. Or on Covid. Or on house prices. Or on anything, except having a fun time. Teenagers are immortal, and when shit happens, happily fatalistic (‘it is what it is’). How often do you hear that now, passing itself off as adult life? There are no cures for what Dolly and others are now experiencing. You won’t even get an appointment with somebody who has half a clue what to do about it.