This too shall pass, they say. A virus that has consumed our lives. Quite literally, over five million of them. Five million mothers, fathers, friends, children, teachers, caregivers. As if time were stopped in its tracks. Smiles covered, families broken, learning halted, livelihoods ruined. A fallacy that defies understanding. An unwavering belief in lies - lies that reject science and contradict every notion of our shared humanity. Lies that continue to hold us back from emerging from two years of darkness. Lies that put self over others, that endanger one's own community. A murder, and another, and another, celebrated by many, mourned by the voiceless, yet unpunished by the powerful. Murders incited by hatred, encouraged by our systems, and dismissed by our institutions. Murders that remind the rest of us that the White man still towers over us. A fanaticism beyond comprehension. An irrational fervor for one man whose sins are never too great - not for those who worship ...