Publisher's Note
Poe Daily Guy here. Today, Poe Daily was Recommended by a massively popular antivax, anti masking, apparently pro Coronavirus mailing list. I’ve searched and googled and there is apparently no way to turn this off on my end.
As someone with long covid damage, I find this absolutely disgusting.
If you’ve come here from the antivax mailing list that I’m not going to name, please unsubscribe now. And then maybe rethink your entire life.
You are literally making my life worse by making sensible, effective methods of dealing with our ongoing pandemic politically unfeasible. You are making everyone’s lives worse. I do not want you as an audience.
EDIT: A day later update.
I wasn’t sure what to expect when I posted this, but it certainly wasn’t 1,000+ Likes. Thank you all for the encouragement, this was the most Liked post by at least 950 people. I suspect some of those were bots just based on where the traffic came from, but many/most of you do appear to be real.
I also received about a dozen supportive emails, and only about a half dozen argumentative emails. I didn’t have the bandwidth to reply to anyone, but thank you to everyone who emailed me supportive things, and goodbye to those of you who tried to argue with me.
In the end, yesterday about 200 new people signed up for Poe Daily, and about 100 people left. So I guess that works out.
The next weekday without a Dracula Daily isn’t until Friday, 08/05, and I’ll see you all then with a fresh new Poe tale!