It's not surprising that I've encountered a decent number of conversations regarding COVID-19 mixed with writing in some fashion. Most have been regarding productivity (and I'm sick of those conversations). A few have been related to whether self-published authors should continue with their publication plans. Others have been related to those seeking traditional roads and querying agents. But a few of them relate to writing contemporary stories and whether we should include COVID-19 into them.

To be blunt, I wouldn't—and here's why put as simply as I can.

Because we're already bored with it.