A recent book about the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic details a ‘collective forgetting’ of the period. Our lack of Covid reckoning suggests history is repeating itself
‘It came into being as a reaction to the lack of any official equivalent’ … the Covid memorial wall in London.‘It came into being as a reaction to the lack of any official equivalent’ … the Covid memorial wall in London.y best friend has been ill and it’s taken both of us back to March 2020. For her, it’s reawakening the real trauma of getting very poorly and waiting, struggling to breathe, for an ambulance that never came.
Covid was so bad for so many – why aren’t we talking about it more? My friend, who suffers badly from long Covid, struggles to understand the refusal of many people to think or talk about the pandemic; their reluctance to understand what it has taken from her and from so many others. She’s baffled by the apparent desire to pretend it never happened, or that it wasn’t a big deal.came into being as a reaction to the lack of any official equivalent.
But surely that’s no longer possible now, when digital life means we’re all enmeshed in one another’s experiences to an unprecedented degree. I certainly can’t forget the private tragedies I saw and read about. But I discovered something else in Spinney’s book: the word– “pretend it didn’t happen”. It’s what elders in one Alaska community devastated by successive epidemics apparently advised people to do.
Peculiar use of the past tense for something that is, literally, still happening, Emma
No one's pretending it didn't happen! We ALL know it happened & the many effects it has caused! It's just more of a case that at some point the need to move on must happen whether ppl like it or not! Life goes on, like it did with pandemics past!
What’s it up to now… 7% higher mortality rate per jab? So if you’ve had 5 ….
Ahh no . The over the top RESPONSE by governments was devastating.
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