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Lockdown Update Day 200
200 days. Huh. Time has lost meaning - so here, have a fairly accurate calendar:
Now I was totally going to do a big link round-up, but today just disappeared... So instead have a meme:
The whole plague thing is something I have been thinking about. In centuries past plagues have been harrowing things, the effects on society profound and long lasting and the images and stories have lived on. But then there is The Spanish Flu. It's this odd blank between WW1 and The Roaring 20s. It's never referenced, the way other events are. And I guess it's because everyone was told to stay put and wear a mask, and the sick went to a hospital. But there doesn't seem to be any... art? No big novels or movies or songs or... anything. It's just a void. (If anyone knows of any, please let me know!) I mean, obviously the world was still reeling from the horrific trauma of a world war - a pandemic is a lot less dramatic, and wearing a mask is less heroic than getting blown to bits on the Western Front. And then everyone just wanted to party, which makes sense.
But it's the seeming complete lack of references that made me think. Books from the 30s will talk about the past, bringing up the First World War, but never mention the Spanish Flu. But people lived through both events. There isn't even a 'At least we don't have to wear masks all the time like we used to!' - or maybe there is, and I never noticed?
Anyway, these are the kinds of things I have been pondering. We are so much more connected now, and there has been such a creative output - all kinds of lockdown projects, everyone coming together online, and that just wasn't possible back then... /end ramble
Now I was totally going to do a big link round-up, but today just disappeared... So instead have a meme:
The whole plague thing is something I have been thinking about. In centuries past plagues have been harrowing things, the effects on society profound and long lasting and the images and stories have lived on. But then there is The Spanish Flu. It's this odd blank between WW1 and The Roaring 20s. It's never referenced, the way other events are. And I guess it's because everyone was told to stay put and wear a mask, and the sick went to a hospital. But there doesn't seem to be any... art? No big novels or movies or songs or... anything. It's just a void. (If anyone knows of any, please let me know!) I mean, obviously the world was still reeling from the horrific trauma of a world war - a pandemic is a lot less dramatic, and wearing a mask is less heroic than getting blown to bits on the Western Front. And then everyone just wanted to party, which makes sense.
But it's the seeming complete lack of references that made me think. Books from the 30s will talk about the past, bringing up the First World War, but never mention the Spanish Flu. But people lived through both events. There isn't even a 'At least we don't have to wear masks all the time like we used to!' - or maybe there is, and I never noticed?
Anyway, these are the kinds of things I have been pondering. We are so much more connected now, and there has been such a creative output - all kinds of lockdown projects, everyone coming together online, and that just wasn't possible back then... /end ramble