COVID Postcard #8 in CORONA series by Dan Youra

COVID Postcard #8 –– I hope you get this card –– is in CORONA BUSTERS series by artist Dan Youra. COVID is a sick disease. It makes its victims sick. Society's response to the virus is sick. Youra's CORONA BUSTER cards are sick. If you are looking for a happy Get Well card, go to Hallmark Cards. Dan Youra's artwork has been described as "satiric" and "acerbic." You see why, when you view Youra's collection of COVID cards. The artist acknowledges that they are "sick," even "macabre." Youra is quoted as saying, "You can't whitewash this hellish disease." The COVID cards probe the dangers and death delivered by the sickening virus. Satire by definition is not pretty. It exposes the dark side of human life. Satire is defined as "the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues." Youra's art isn't aimed at the virus, rather at the human response to the virus –– masks, ICU, quarantine, VAXX or no VAXX, this drug or that drug, death or no death. In an additional twist of irony, Youra's cartoony viruses are portrayed as cute and non threatening. Whether your response to the cutesy viruses and sick satire is a chuckle or a groan, you might see a glint of truth in an alternative point of view.