Postcards from Mexico: On the beach in Playa del Carmen

Postcards from Mexico: On the beach in Playa del Carmen

PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Quintana Roo, May 25, 2022 — Over coffee with a friend I’ll call Luisa, I’m given the rundown on some system we’re all complicit in. That there are dark forces in the world, shadowy figures that want us to be unwell, eat foods that make us sick, use devices that facilitate the tracking of our movements and submit to vaccinations that were hastily manufactured. She offers no specifics but adds ominously that when the time comes,…