The flu pandemic that hit from 1918 to 1920 ranked as one of the most miserable events in the history of the United States, but it left very little cultural impact: no novel that is still read today, no great movie. Unlike with the other calamities of the early twentieth century, artists had little meaning to plumb in the suffering. Americans could grasp the lessons easily: life is arbitrary and often cruel; the human body is very frail, and there are some things from which it cannot be protected.So it is with COVID-19, which may end up ranking as the fifth-deadliest pandemic in history. Apart from occasional reminiscing about how strange the spring of 2020 was, many of us would like to not talk about…
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