A novel case

The symptoms hide in silent whirs of hearts that seem both fast and slow, as if the wary beats could stir the beast our world has come to know.

We wear our masks to hide and guard a sickness we cannot discern, and suffocate behind facades of shallow breaths, and numb concern.

Contagions crawl through eyes and screens, they spread through tongues and social feeds, infecting our society with novel mass-anxiety.