Dr Ro Smith on Nostr: Thinking a lot lately about how we forgot about the 1918 flu because it never ...
Thinking a lot lately about how we forgot about the 1918 flu because it never appeared in any of our preserved media.
Whether we like it or not, history is more often preserved in popular literature (whatever form that takes) than in the classroom.
By not recording the real, ongoing impact of the pandemic on our daily lives, we are doomed to repeat it.
It may have started as an attempt to avoid trauma, but now it is part of the propaganda machine.
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