“If you live in New York City and you don’t have COVID right now, um,” one TikTok user said before pausing and tucking her hair behind her ears. “You’re lying.” Serena Kerrigan, a New York–based influencer who refers to herself as “Samantha Jones IRL,” in reference to the Sex and the City character, filmed herself reclining in bed, muttering “gorgeous gorgeous girls have COVID,” and then, “No, like, everyone has COVID right now.”

The TikTok trend of the moment: video collages of iMessage screenshots from friend after friend delivering news such as “Meh I got exposed to COVID” and “I know like 10 kids from that party with covid,” set to background music as varied as Adele’s latest single and Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda.” Everyone in New York has COVID, and everyone agrees, even though they know that is not literally true. And this seemed to happen in just one weekend. “I thought everyone wasn’t getting coron but now everyone is having coron,” the painter and Manhattan personality Sam McKinniss tweeted on Tuesday. Personally, I do have the coronavirus. Even as I’m typing up this story, in isolation, I have it. I think I got it last Friday night in Queens, but who can say?