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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, which has so far claimed numbers equal to the total population of Atlanta, leave in the American psyche? Will we build special places in our palace of memories for our recollections of the plague? Write panoramic novels about disaster? Gather our children around campfires and tell them tales about the deadly struggle? Build monuments to the fallen?

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