Living Through a Pandemic, Amidst an Economic Depression, at a Time of Record-Smashing Wildfires by TI Pendraig Since April of 2020, when the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 truly erupted across the United States, there has been a remarkable uptick in media ads offering scripted, empty platitudes from the corporate sector. In these unprecedented times, they intone with sombre gravity, as if the masses can’t tell…