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How to Remember a Plague 如何铭记一场瘟疫
Laura Bliss 劳拉·布利斯
In normal times， future historians probably really wouldn t care about what you had for breakfast， or saw on the way to work， on any particular day. But that changed in 2020， and so did the instinct to document. In a pandemic that touched virtually every person and aspect of life on Earth， the ordinary was imbued with world-historical significance， inspiring an outburst of archival projects to capture how regular people lived through an unprecedented year.
Universities， libraries， and local historians on at least four continents are leading many such memory-preservation efforts. Some are managed by revered institutions， while others are scrappier， intimate. In the former camp is the Library of Congress in Washington， D.C.， which has crowdsourced more than 1，700 photographs of American Covid experiences from Flickr users since September.