1: Do you feel a need to remember or a desire to forget?
2: What artifact of this era will be you memory trigger?
3: What will be the longest lasting change from the experience?
4: What can we do to help future generations learn from our experience?
5: What are you most looking forward to returning to as it was before?
My Answers:
1: Do you feel a need to remember or a desire to forget? At my age, this is a part of my life experience that I will never forget.
2: What artifact of this era will be you memory trigger? Face coverings.
3: What will be the longest lasting change from the experience? Working from home, I think this flexibility will be retained (I hope so.)
4: What can we do to help future generations learn from our experience? I am starting to take photos, of what it was like. Photos that tell a story.
5: What are you most looking forward to returning to as it was before? Maskless air travel.
Please share your answers in the comments.
1: Do you feel a need to remember or a desire to forget? To forget, definitely.
ReplyDelete2: What artifact of this era will be you memory trigger? Masks I suppose.
3: What will be the longest lasting change from the experience? More online meetings?
4: What can we do to help future generations learn from our experience? Beyond me.
5: What are you most looking forward to returning to as it was before? Physical contact.
Huggs!
DeleteI hope someone has been collecting those social distancing signs.
ReplyDelete1. The historian comes out in me. I want to remember the initial fear and the feeling that we will all die. I don't want to forget how different groups of people were affected, the injustices and how systems failed us.
2. Face masks. It will be hard for me to ever travel on busy public without a mask. In fact, I don't think I will.
3. Something I never had a fear of before, but always being cautious around people because of what they are breathing out. I need more time.
4. A person took a video of our empty city streets during the most severe lockdowns. Trams without passengers were still running, keeping excellent time without passengers to delay them and no motor traffic. It was a sad video and one I won't forget. The history is very well recorded by writing, photos and videos for future generations.
5. Losing the fear of possibly infectious people. I want to stop judging people by the absurd factor of me thinking someone doesn't look like a Covid type. I am mostly a logical person, but that just does not work in this situation.
Apologies for answering in such detail. I don't know where that came from.
Talking through it can be helpful,
Delete1. It's a combo. Forgetting completely is just dangerous.
ReplyDelete2. Physical artifacts? Masks, I suppose.
3. Stupidity and conspiracy. I had no idea the hate / selfishness / stupidity that runs throughout the U.S. If we thought there was a divide pre pandemic (and BLOTUS - as they do go hand in hand here), we were mistaken how wide that gap is.....and it's growing.
4. Honestly? After seeing the last 2-5 years? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
5. Travel. I think.
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The divide, the stupidity, is greater away from the coasts. I was surprised the other day at one of my colleagues who has not had the first booster, I was reminding my staff to update their record when they get the second booster, as an old fart I have.
Delete1: Do you feel a need to remember or a desire to forget? To remember, because those that forget are doomed to repeat themselves.
ReplyDelete2: What artifact of this era will be you memory trigger? Oh, the masks definitely.
3: What will be the longest lasting change from the experience? Social distancing, and the fact that most of us seemed to enjoy it.
4: What can we do to help future generations learn from our experience? Remember it.
5: What are you most looking forward to returning to as it was before? Touching people, and not that creepy stalker on a subway kind of way. Not again.
Huggs!
Delete1. Remember or forget? No point in wallowing in it.
ReplyDelete2. Memory trigger artefact? Face masks, definitely.
3. Longest lasting change? For me, the importance of hand washing.
4. Help future generations learn? I hope they learn not to politicize health measures like a bunch of self-destructive ignoramuses.
5. Most looking forward to returning to? Easy travel.
I am in the DC bubble, I forget how political this was. Not helped by he who must not be named.
Delete1: Do you feel a need to remember or a desire to forget? I don't mind remembering.
ReplyDelete2: What artifact of this era will be you memory trigger? The stack of post cards a friend sent me.
3: What will be the longest lasting change from the experience? The way we all work.
4: What can we do to help future generations learn from our experience? Promote education and electing "smart" leaders.
5: What are you most looking forward to returning to as it was before? International flights without a face mask.
If the current policy on number 5 expires as scheduled, it could make my May plans easier.
Delete1: Do you feel a need to remember or a desire to forget? I will remember
ReplyDelete2: What artifact of this era will be you memory trigger? working from home
3: What will be the longest lasting change from the experience? it looks like nothing.
4: What can we do to help future generations learn from our experience? teach history.
Learn from the past,
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