STUDIO CITY—Following last month’s presidential inauguration, local woman Mallory Chen realized that her overwhelming political anxiety had subsided into slightly less overwhelming political anxiety. “The twenty minutes that it took for Joe Biden to be sworn in and speak was the first time in four years that I felt like I could tune out a speech given by the Commander-In-Chief without worrying that he was going to say something racist or incite a riot. And Lady Gaga’s beautiful rendition of the National Anthem almost made me forget that I haven’t gotten a stimulus check since March,” said Chen, squeezing a stress ball as she read a Los Angeles Times article about Congress negotiating smaller relief checks. “I even called my therapist to reduce my sessions from three times a week to twice a week. I’m so grateful that I don’t have to hear about the latest unbelievable thing Trump did, and that I only have to be concerned about the deadly pandemic, the children still in cages at the border, the issues of police brutality and racial injustice, and the growing wealth gap!” At press time, Chen was Googling “Kamala Harris mass incarceration” after adding a “Madam Vice President” tote bag to her Amazon cart.