"Over time, we simply stirred the virus in with all the other forms of disorder and dysfunction we live with — problems that appear to be acceptable because they merely inconvenience some large portion of people, even as they devastate others"
still one of the best pieces of writing about the pandemic (Jon Mooallem in 2023)
@inquiline Historian John Barry wrote an excellent history of the 1918 flu pandemic and one of the strangest observations he makes in that book is that there’s almost no cultural trace of the disease. Where are the songs, poems, films, and novels portraying the days when people died in scores?
There’s almost no trace.
That seemed bizarre to me, but it’s pretty much what we’ve done with Covid
I made these posts in 2020 and 2021, collecting old newspaper stories about the 1918 & 1919 #SpanishInfluenza in the place where I live, #California. The stories are astounding. There's no echo, except ours.
https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2020/04/second-wave-of-spanish-influenza-in.html
https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2020/05/the-anti-mask-league-of-san-francisco.html
https://fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/2021/03/weapons-against-influenza-1918-american.html
@morgan @grammasaurus @inquiline @moss
'Its members declare the masks insanitary and useless.'
How fascinating that they use the exact same arguments that these same groups used in the early 2020s. 'Not only do masks not work, but they are bad for you'
Remember the bullshit about masks trapping carbon dioxide? I ran into somebody the other day who still believes that. The guy who delivers my medical oxygen 🤦🏼
tools for commensality 🧿
f*cking b*tch club
bison ✅
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