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The Hard Truth About Memorializing the Pandemic
Don’t expect a monument to the Covid casualties. We’re wired to forget events too large, or random, to comprehend.
Lights surround the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, placed as a memorial to Covid-19 victims, Jan. 19, 2021, in Washington. | AP Photo/Alex Brandon
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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 the disaster? Gather our children around campfires and tell
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By Robert Grenier
Mr. Grenier is a former C.I.A. station chief for Pakistan and Afghanistan, Iraq mission manager and director of the C.I.A.âs Counterterrorism Center.
Jan. 27, 2021
Insurgents storming the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The United States may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency.Credit.Leah Millis/Reuters
As a former overseas operative who has struggled both on the side of insurgents and against them, the past few days have brought a jarring realization: We may be witnessing the dawn of a sustained wave of violent insurgency within our own country, perpetrated by our own countrymen. Three weeks ago, it would have been unthinkable that the United States might be a candidate for a comprehensive counterinsurgency program. But that is where we are.
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