The Hard Truth About Memorializing the Pandemic
The Hard Truth About Memorializing the Pandemic POLITICO 2/23/2021 By Jack Shafer © AP Photo/Alex Brandon Lights surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, placed as a memorial to Covid-19 victims, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. The medical holocaust that is the Covid-19 pandemic—500,000 dead in the United States and 2.5 million worldwide—hasn’t even hit our rearview mirror yet. But as acquired immunity and vaccinations take hold, as the death rate and hospitalizations taper, and as normality returns as a life option, what sort of cultural dent will the outbreak,...