| I think your answer also gives a clue about the difference. Unless we have horrifically miscalculated, this disease will be no more than a shadow after four years, and we will be grappling with other, even thornier issues (climate change, systemic racism, the radical right, power grids, etc etc etc). We HAVE a vaccine for covid, we have multiple vaccines in fact. Although we had a president who tried to ignore it a la Reagan, covid could not be hidden. I don't think it will prove interesting in the rear view mirror, and I think the manifestation of crises in poor and minority communities that covid uncovered will be expressed in present tense issues, not more stories about covid. AIDS didn't go away; it still hasn't. There was a fantastic play about covid, the docudrama that the Public streamed over the summer about the healthcare workers, The Line. That was present tense. It still haunts. |
