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Get ready for Blob Girl Summer Talia Lavin Franco Origlia/Getty Images
The writer Talia Lavin reflects on emerging from our Covid quarantines with the same perceived flaws and insecurities as before.
What if the coming season is less Hot Vaxxed Girl Summer and more Blob Girl Summer ?
As the petals drop to the pavement and shots slip into arms, we re rolling inexorably toward Hot Vaxxed Girl Summer. We, the immunized, survivors of the plague, are supposed to emerge from our Covid quarantines without hesitancy. The problem with this is that I was never Hot in the first place and this Summer is no different.