I’ve spent most of the day feeling lethargic and tired and blah on the couch slowly getting through a book (The Ocean at the End of the Lane). Did not do chilli paste although I got as far as taking the ice cube tray out of the fridge. Too lazy to look at anything in the kitchen after making an omelette with gem squash in it.
Having a go at watching Station Eleven. I feel like any stories about future pandemics will be written very differently (I am aware this was written for tv and filmed in 2020-2021 even if the book was written a decade ago…) If the characters don’t make some reference to the panini, the authors’ writing would have to be informed by it. They’d know how information and panic really spreads.
I lived through SARS somewhat full on a teenager overseas - schools closed, primitive e-learning and all, empty-ish streets, pretty bloody scary news - and it always annoyed me that nobody really wrote that experience into fiction as much after that. Fair enough, I guess most people never really went through it like with covid.
I actually began writing something about a plague and quarantine attempts based on a dream I had a year or two before covid. I uh… think it’s best I don’t write anymore
There’s a lot of literature on the topic already. Albert Camus’ The Plague, Stephen King’s The Stand to name just two. Plus a lot of sci-fi. Might could be that the writing community is still processing and still looking for a new angle to write to on the topic.
We didn’t have much e-learning. The school tried but people barely had broadband so it didn’t really work. Pretty much just waited till it was over. That’s why I thought this one would be over in a few months too. Come SARS 2 as soon as the rumours hit masks were sold out everywhere.
I’ve spent most of the day feeling lethargic and tired and blah on the couch slowly getting through a book (The Ocean at the End of the Lane). Did not do chilli paste although I got as far as taking the ice cube tray out of the fridge. Too lazy to look at anything in the kitchen after making an omelette with gem squash in it.
Having a go at watching Station Eleven. I feel like any stories about future pandemics will be written very differently (I am aware this was written for tv and filmed in 2020-2021 even if the book was written a decade ago…) If the characters don’t make some reference to the panini, the authors’ writing would have to be informed by it. They’d know how information and panic really spreads.
I would like more references to the panini!
I lived through SARS somewhat full on a teenager overseas - schools closed, primitive e-learning and all, empty-ish streets, pretty bloody scary news - and it always annoyed me that nobody really wrote that experience into fiction as much after that. Fair enough, I guess most people never really went through it like with covid.
I actually began writing something about a plague and quarantine attempts based on a dream I had a year or two before covid. I uh… think it’s best I don’t write anymore
There’s a lot of literature on the topic already. Albert Camus’ The Plague, Stephen King’s The Stand to name just two. Plus a lot of sci-fi. Might could be that the writing community is still processing and still looking for a new angle to write to on the topic.
-wave in SARS 1 kid-
We didn’t have much e-learning. The school tried but people barely had broadband so it didn’t really work. Pretty much just waited till it was over. That’s why I thought this one would be over in a few months too. Come SARS 2 as soon as the rumours hit masks were sold out everywhere.