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COVID-19 - making history?
Cutting to help people trying to limit how much of this sort of thing they're reading
Feeling like we're being watched by historians from 2120 at the moment. Imagining they'll be pouring over what looks to them like primitative technology to find our records of this pandemic to help inform planning for the next one. Pandemics have happened throughout history, COVID-19 won't be the last.
Basically I reckon journalling and other writing about COVID-19 is a good thing to encourage as apart from the immediate benefits, we're all getting to talk to history and some of what we will say will hopefully be preserved like the diaries from 1918.
Have had a couple of moments of feeling really strange about it all - in Morrisons last week standing in a long queue for the checkout, with Karma Chameleon being played over the supermarket's audio system and looking at the people around me thinking "they haven't got a clue what's coming / how many people are actually going to die." [I've been alive to pandemics as a real thing since I worked at the MHRA well over a decade ago].
Then last night as I was reading bits of news online, the combination of the changed government advice and the number of places that are closing in response to the pandemic gave me the feeling of being in the first half hour of a disaster film.
Feeling like we're being watched by historians from 2120 at the moment. Imagining they'll be pouring over what looks to them like primitative technology to find our records of this pandemic to help inform planning for the next one. Pandemics have happened throughout history, COVID-19 won't be the last.
Basically I reckon journalling and other writing about COVID-19 is a good thing to encourage as apart from the immediate benefits, we're all getting to talk to history and some of what we will say will hopefully be preserved like the diaries from 1918.
Have had a couple of moments of feeling really strange about it all - in Morrisons last week standing in a long queue for the checkout, with Karma Chameleon being played over the supermarket's audio system and looking at the people around me thinking "they haven't got a clue what's coming / how many people are actually going to die." [I've been alive to pandemics as a real thing since I worked at the MHRA well over a decade ago].
Then last night as I was reading bits of news online, the combination of the changed government advice and the number of places that are closing in response to the pandemic gave me the feeling of being in the first half hour of a disaster film.