Now that all of the mask required and social distancing signs are pretty much gone there will be little record of that aspect of the pandemic.
I wish I took more photos
there will be little record
Did you use any form of social media in the last 3 years?
@papalonian @possiblylinux127 They say the internet never forgets, but still… An overwhelming percentage of content on the internet will be lost to time, because websites die constantly and most things aren’t archived. It’s also yet to be seen if archive sites like archive.org survive or not.
Individual websites come and go, yes, but COVID literally dominated every and all aspects of everyday life for the better part of 2020. It’s like saying that everyone is gonna forget that WWII happened because most of the newspapers from the time have stopped running.
It’s not that the Internet never forgets, it’s just that most people don’t remember the things it forgot.
People forgot about the similar pandemic in 1919 or so. Everything repeated, including the anti-vaxxers.
So yes it will happen again and again. As will war, and everything else shit yet inherent in human nature.
I saw pictures of everyone wearing masks during the 1919 pandemic. And that was before everyone had cameras in their pockets. OP is exaggerating, people aren’t going to forget about it.
I worked for a company that started manufacturing masks (the N95 ones) during the pandemic and we still make and sell masks. I won’t be forgetting since I still work on the machines.
It was in the news daily and one of maybe 5 main topics of discussion for like 3 solid years. I’m good lol.
I think we have plenty of record of what it was like. Between that and social media not too sure what you mean.
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Facebook’s shitty search ability, retribution against reddit, photobucket’s apocalypse, dozens of site rebrandings, and the death of hundreds of other popular sites has proven posts on the internet are as temporary as paper. It only lasts if someone properly archives it, just as was the case with those 1919 newspaper articles.
Yeah, whoever said whatever you post on the internet is there forever was SO wrong. Want to find stuff from 2008 even? Yeah good luck
I have some bad news about the rest of human history…
Covid24 will remind us all
Bingo!
I did this, in fact. I took photos of every Covid and mask related sign I saw in 2020 and 2021.
You could post them on Wikimedia Commons with a free license to let anybody use them (giving you credits), so they would be preserved for the history of humankind.
Great idea! I’d love to organize them and make a project of it.
Do it! :) It’s quite easy, you can start from here: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:First_steps
Here in the Bahamas, they never bothered taking them down.
