With people standing six feet apart
it is easy to see how the line wraps around the street, prospective
clients shuffling awkwardly in the winter chill in the hopes of getting
to see someone today and to avoid a similar wait tomorrow. Slowly but
surely the line trudges on at a snail's pace, the massive demand
overwhelming the incredibly small number of clinics that could offer
this strange new service.
Around a
year ago, a new patent was filled by a freshly incorporated business.
This company, Nostalg-Co, claimed to have done the impossible, sending
someone back through time. While the news quickly picked up on the
story, reporting it as some kind of futuristic time machine, the reality
was far more restrictive. Regardless, with the perception of our future
growing darker and darker with the pandemic ravaging the world, young
people feeling trapped under today's economy, and each successive
climate disaster making the outlook appear more and more bleak people
began to line up around the block to have a chance at going back to a
more optimistic era.
The demand
had become so high that governments around the world had to get
involved. However, rather than limiting the procedure or restricting
access, they pushed for a greater rollout as an easier way of combating
the social problems of the day. Before long clinics had begun to pop up
around the country, each one with the same simple, albeit confusing
slogan;
NOSTALG-CO: FOR A NEW OLD YOU