I've been thinking about this whole area some more.
All my life, I've been fascinated by World War I.
The Edwardian era was so lovely. So idealistic. That Garden of Eden
image of the Edwardian childhood passed in freedom in the woods and
fields. Innocence in the shadow of the evils of empire and the
efficiency of industrialism.
Next? Trench warfare in the French countryside. Mud, cooties (body
lice), poison gas, and wholesale slaughter in the name of duty. Top it
off with a global flu pandemic made worse by the supply lines used to
feed the slaughter.
Makes it difficult to believe in the sanity of the human race.
Another lifelong passion has been the effect of disease on human beings.
How measles affects new, non-immune populations. How typhus has defeated
more armies than any technology. The Black Death, cholera, chickenpox
among native Americans. Pasteur struggling to find a treatment for rabies.
Okay, so somehow, I never imagined that I would live in a pandemic future.
Also, I homeschooled my kids. As a family, we're used to hanging out
with one another, depending on one another, cooking and cleaning
together, doing home-based projects, working from and learning at home.
We're used to being a home-based family.
So it's as if I've been studying my whole life for this pandemic, but *I
didn't have a clue it was coming*.
Next nightmare: fascism.
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Heather Madrone ([email protected])
Blog: http://www.knitfitter.com/category/personal/
http://sheltershock.thecomicseries.com
Nothing worth doing is ever easy.
