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Post by amyghost on Jun 27, 2020 11:45:06 GMT
What worries me at times is that the public (significant sectors of it, anyway) seems on the way to becoming addicted to this sort of thinking, and are being subtly manipulated into the notion that life is forever after going to undergo some drastic change as the result of this virus. Those who think this way would do well do ponder on a similar pandemic that occurred just a little over fifty years ago, well within the memory span of many, both here on this board and throughout the country. It too was a global affair that claimed many lives, but both its treatment by the media and its cultural afterlife are hugely different from today. A little trivia question might be: How many of you even remember this event? And if you don't (and are old enough to have recall of it), what does this suggest to you about the manner in which the current pandemic is being handled today? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Kong_fluMy Dad, who was around at the time, told me about that a few months ago. I'd never even heard about it until this year. And I'm a huge history buff. You'd be amazed at the number of people who were adults at the time who don't recall it until reminded. My sister, who is 13 years older than me had forgotten all about it until I mentioned it to her; when she looked it up, she had clear recollection of it, but also recalled that so little had been made of the event that it had pretty nearly completely dropped out of her memory. She's since mentioned it to a number of her friends and acquaintances, and gotten a similar response--until their memory was jogged, most of them had totally forgotten that this previous pandemic had ever occurred. And it was at least as major in its effects globally as the current Covid virus is. |
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