Share Your Covid Story for History
New website CovidStoriesArchive.org hopes to become the repository of stories from the pandemic, lockdown and beyond.
I love to dabble in charts and dress up infographics but nothing really conveys the import of a matter like a story. Like any other historical event, everyone has a story about COVID-19 and the response to the pandemic. Sam and Ellen Wald approached me sometime late last year with the hopes of building a website to capture these stories. We mustered some resources at Rational Ground and helped them launch: CovidStoriesArchive.org
SHARE YOUR STORY BEFORE YOU FORGET!
The website and its Twitter feed share submissions (with permission) and log these stories for posterity’s sake. Memory is an intangible and flighty thing—CovidStoriesArchive.org is trying to capture as many stories as they can before those memories fade.
Here are few examples:
And it’s not ALL terrible experiences… sometimes the mandate to stay at home elicited some interesting results!
Some are wrenching and prescient still. Take a moment, gather your thoughts and archive your story for posterity!