What we are experiencing right now is the pandemic’s social death
‘Cases are around 42,000 a day, but with a vaccinated population, it’s 2019 all over again’ says Brigid Delaney.‘Cases are around 42,000 a day, but with a vaccinated population, it’s 2019 all over again’ says Brigid Delaney.Last modified on Thu 2 Jun 2022 18.31 BSTfter a mass trauma comes the mass forgetting. No one really wants to talk about Covid any more, even though it tore through every dimension of our lives.
Sitting in a writers’ room last year for a television show, it was decided pretty quickly to not mention the pandemic in the series we were making; it would be too much of a downer to have our characters wearing masks or checking in with QR codes. And so it’s not mentioned.Publishers tell me they are also steering clear of what they call “lockdown novels” – books written in lockdown about the pandemic – for the same reason.
At the opening night party of a recent writers’ festival, masks were off and people jammed into a space, hugging and kissing – while publishers told me their authors were “dropping like flies” due to Covid and cancelling their events. So deep is the dissociation that we seem wilfully blind to the link between standing 5cm away from someone’s face while salivating on them and the sickness that results.
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