Saturday, August 21, 2021

I Really Want To Know…

...if this kind of thing happened in the Spanish flu epidemic.

Or if somebody is planning a novel about this sort of thing after the pandemic?

 Nah. Nobody would believe that.

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  1. There was an anti-mask movement in the flu pandemic, one paper I read said it was a contributor to the second, far more deadly surge of the disease. Apparently San Francisco was a major locus for it back then. One of the interviews with a survivor of that pandemic I listened to last year said her mother dosed them with sodium bicarbonate back then, she wondered if that might have kept her family from getting sick even as they brought food to victims in their rural town. I suspect isolation was what did it. I think it's the only thing that has saved the ones in my family who didn't get Covid-19, I'm dreading the start of the school year here, one of my young nephews is too young to get the vaccine until the middle of September, I have a niece who works at U of New Hampshire where their asshole Sununu governor won't require vaccines. She's vaccinated and always wears a mask. The place she teaches has a powerful ventilation system but I'm still worried for everyone there.

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  2. If Thomas Pynchon has another novel in him, let it be this one .

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    1. "A screaming comes across the sky."

      "Oh, sorry; that was just me. Sorry."

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