PANDEMIC STORIES

A Drunk Breathed on Me. I’m Probably Gonna Die.

Welcome to Dystopia

CJ Sterling
8 min readMar 16, 2020

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So we are in week 700 of the Coronavirus outbreak in Seattle, a city with 3.4 million people. Or maybe it’s only week three. The big sports stadiums are shuttered, the schools are closed and Mayor Pete Buttigieg hosted Jimmy Kimmel. Welcome to Dystopia. The landscape is surreal.

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CJ Sterling

Writer, journalist. Commentary: Washington Post, Economist, Daily Beast, New York Times, Seattle Times, Crosscut, The Stranger. 2.9 million views, Quora.