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Library of Congress and StoryCorps Partner on COVID-19 Oral History Archive

On January 22, the Library of Congress (LOC) announced the launch of the COVID-19 Archive Activation website, an online tool created in coll

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“I can’t emphasize enough how everyone’s COVID-19 experience is valuable,” AFC Director Nicole Saylor said. “It’s worth preserving. It doesn’t matter your zip code, your community, whether you contracted it. Everyone has a story.”

Hard to believe it has been almost four years since the pandemic shutdown.

YOU ALL NEED TO DO THIS.

to my knowledge, we have NO oral history of the Spanish Flu. We probably have some oral history of Polio, but of the mass outbreaks of measles and mumps? Nope, because they happened -all the time,- you know, the way COVID will.

We don’t have a mass oral history from the beginning AIDS pandemic. Recording technology was a lot bulkier, a lot harder to access (especially if you were in ‘80s or early ‘90s sub Saharan Africa, or the Warsaw Pact), and for decades, no one wanted to talk about it.

For about 20 years, you found out you had AIDS because you were actively dying.

Universal gloves didn’t use to be a thing in medicine. Condom access used to be a lot harder.

It would have been nice if universal masks in medicine came out of this plague - and it might yet still.

If we sit down now, interview a friend, and talk about what scared us and still does about COVID, we may still yet save ourselves from our laziest and most selfish instincts.

(via jabberwockypie)

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