<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Each day, the New York Times has a full page of “those we’ve lost, faces from the coronavirus pandemic.” They are average people who have made contributions to their communities. Nobody particularly famous but important in the small world they lived in. Like most of us.<br><br><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On May 14, 2020, at 7:30 AM, Ellen Moody via Vwoolf <vwoolf@lists.osu.edu> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">One of things I've noticed is how little commemoration or memorials there have been of who has died in this pandemic. During wars we get a plethora of lists of who died; remember how Cronkite used to have a list of who died today in Vietnam. Judy Woodruff on PBS does that. I saw one ceremony in Spain and it was broken up by authorities as defying the quarantine.<div><br></div><div>The only place I have seen this is on PBS: every three or so nights, Judy Woodruff remembers three or four people. She is careful to include ordinary non-heroes, non high ranking people; indeed most of her portraits are of non-famous people. She has a photo of the person, tells the story of their occupation, a little of their life (as told by the family) and then family and friends. The loss is not just to the person dead but to those whom this person meant a lot to in their lives. I've thought one reason for this silence is there are no general statistics put out by any central authority telling the names and a little about the people who died today. No central sources. </div><div><br>People do not like to talk of sickness, illness and then real deaths from sickness. Perhaps Susan Sontag deals with this on her book on illness as a metaphor.</div><div><br></div><div>Ellen</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 6:34 AM Kllevenback via Vwoolf <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.osu.edu">vwoolf@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">My first instinct was to send this to Jane and Elizabeth—but then I reconsidered.<br>
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Stay safe, be well—<br>
Karen Levenback<br>
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Why Are There Almost No Memorials to the Flu of 1918?<br>
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