Have you ever found yourself sitting on your couch watching a Christmas movie and thinking, “You know what? This story just doesn’t have enough infectious diseases.”
No? Congratulations! You’re a normal person.
But if you answered “yes,” you might be Nicole Carr, a leftist ProPublica writer who’s upset that this year’s holiday film offerings just don’t focus enough on the coronavirus, social distancing, mask mandates, vaccine passports, and death.
“Bothered by a new Christmas movie [because] it doesn’t address COVID,” Carr whined on Twitter. “I know it was shot during the pandemic, so are we pretending there’s no virus? We can’t get a script about how they’ve managed to have a big, maskless indoor party [with] strangers in 2021 & no vaxx or testing status convo?”
And of course, true to form, she had to drag her adolescent child into the conversation with a mostly likely made-up quote that no 10-year-old would ever think up on their own.
“Now the movie is on a scene in which the neighbor just shows up for Christmas dinner and joins the family. My 10 yo: “Does it look like Omicron exists in their world?”
Now the movie is on a scene in which the neighbor just shows up for Christmas dinner and joins the family. My 10 yo: “Does it look like Omicron exists in their world?” 😩
— Nicole Carr (@NicoleFCarr) December 5, 2021
You mean the only recently identified, mild COVID variant from which one on in the world has yet died? No, probably not.
Never mind that the entire point of most movies – particularly Christmas ones – is to remove the viewer from reality and immerse them, even if for a short while, in a fictional, often fantastical story for the purposes of enjoyment. In truth, rarely do wealthy princes from made-up lands fall for a quirky American tourist, seldom do ghosts from Christmas past start up a modern-day romance with a realtor, and almost never does a girl get sprayed in the face with perfume at the mall, only to have to endure 12 repeating dates with a hunky stranger in a garland-draped version of Groundhog Day.
That’s why they’re called “movies,” not “documentaries.”
But for the COVID-obsessed, Christmas is yet another day to ruin with paranoia, fear-mongering, and general misery.