I've already read a few works set during the pandemic. They're not ABOUT it, they simply happen to to be set in that time. It didn't trouble me, even though I did lose many friends to COVID, and had some especially close friends come very close to dying of it. The pandemic changed the way the world was for 2 whole years, so I have no problem with authors acknowledging that in their works. I doubt I would read a book that made the pandemic central to the plot, but "set during? No problem.
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