LOS ANGELES, CA — Journalist and pandemic enthusiast Taylor Lorenz quietly stroked her dead stuffed cat this week and reassured the deceased kitty that everything was just fine.

Lorenz sat in an unfurnished apartment on a single folding chair wearing an n95 face mask while holding the long-ago deceased feline, whom she named ‘Mr. Friskers' after picking up the pussycat at an antique store last year. "We're doing great, aren't we, buddy?" asked Lorenz as she rubbed his matted, dead head and patted his dusty back.

"They don't know, Mr. Friskers. They think I'm crazy. But I'm not. I'll show them. I'm the least crazy person in the world. I'm glad you agreed to get your latest Covid booster, Mr. Friskers. If we hadn't, I'd throw you in the garbage incinerator like I did to the last dead cat w

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