Drought

Today, I had to decide whether to wear my COVID mask or my N95 fire-season mask.

I’m afraid that maybe living in California isn't safe anymore. Maybe it’s insane to stay here in the drought, smoke-filled, what's the word? Fuck.

Are we like the half-memory I have of the characters from The Grapes of Wrath? Staying when it’s all hopeless?

Maybe you could say this about the US in general.