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I would like more references to the panini!
I lived through SARS somewhat full on a teenager overseas - schools closed, primitive e-learning and all, empty-ish streets, pretty bloody scary news - and it always annoyed me that nobody really wrote that experience into fiction as much after that. Fair enough, I guess most people never really went through it like with covid.
I actually began writing something about a plague and quarantine attempts based on a dream I had a year or two before covid. I uh... think it's best I don't write anymore
There's a lot of literature on the topic already. Albert Camus' The Plague, Stephen King's The Stand to name just two. Plus a lot of sci-fi. Might could be that the writing community is still processing and still looking for a new angle to write to on the topic.
-wave in SARS 1 kid-
We didn't have much e-learning. The school tried but people barely had broadband so it didn't really work. Pretty much just waited till it was over. That's why I thought this one would be over in a few months too. Come SARS 2 as soon as the rumours hit masks were sold out everywhere.