Area X Closed Due to Government Shutdown

Area X is closed due to the government shutdown.

Actually, it isnt, but the park that Area X is based on is.  Jeff Vandermeer, the author of the Southern Reach trilogy is publicizing a "go fund me" to reopen the park during the shutdown.  You can read about this here:

https://observer.com/2019/01/jeff-vandermeer-government-shutdown-annihilation-area-x/

The author goes on to observe:

“I believe to some extent Trump wants this chaos, because, and I don’t know if it’s even necessarily him that’s the most rigidly ideological about this, but I do believe there are people in his administration pushing to destroy parts of government because they believe those parts should not actually exist… This hurts everyone’s quality of life. It’s actually imperative for our own survival with climate change that we keep as much natural space as possible. It’s literally a no brainer in terms of carbon dioxide and also with regard to having clean water and everything else. There’s a fundamental dysfunction with this administration where they either don’t care because they don’t have to suffer the consequences or they literally don’t understand how the world works.”