The point being-- artistic rejection always hurts. Even when you're a 34-year-old woman being rejected by a bunch of gen Z kids. And the work wasn't even relevant anymore because you'd been out of school for 12 years.

Covid is airborne: there's no evidence of fomite transmission (i.e. from surfaces). Covid hangs in the air like smoke & lingers in rooms with bad ventilation, hours after infected people have left.
Those baggy blue surgical masks are pretty useless anyway - we've been gaslit from the outset by govt.