this said, i just opened the link and the quote there from max frai, which is in retrospect deeply hilarious for many convoluted russian sf/f-ish fandom reasons (frai used to be a very influental writer of vaguely magical realism fantasy, who ushered a lot of vaguely cozy magical realism fantasy, who themselves seems to be a genuinely unpleasant person with a delusions of grandeur, and who went completely off the walls bonkers insane in response to covid, in a you-sheeple-wearing-masks-are-killing-the-soul-of-world way). so there's that.