The days are getting shorter, and the nights are getting longer. It’s chilly outside, and you don’t really want to go out. Even if it is lovely and sunny—your bed is much warmer. The semester is done, so you don’t even really have to leave the house if you don’t want to.
Whether it’s over a period of centuries, decades or days, history always seems to have a way of repeating itself. This time, it looks like the constant threat of nuclear annihilation is coming back, like it did in the Cold War.