Tuesday RDP: unmask
In “The Masque of the Red Death,” the poor are sacrificed to disease so the rich can keep their comfortable lives.
It’s only a story.
Isn’t it?

Photo A.M. Moscoso
“And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Masque of the Red Death
Wow, very powerful connection to today’s pandemic.
Sadly, that is true.