"...Our Times"

From my 2020 Covid Journals.

Our flag at half-mast. She flutters in front of historic PS~167. This in my 'Hood. I took the image on March 28th, 2020, at the start of local Lockdowns.  She remains at half-staff 297 days later. I woke today to new numbers. To put it in context. The U.S. combat deaths in WW2 was 297,557. The CDC reported today's U.S. COVID perished as 308,957. We have just fought a Great War.

*This from December 2020. American totals still rise but thanks to vaccines slowly. Over One Million One Hundred Thousand as of this writing in late December 2022.

Most wish to forget.

This is why at the start it was asked that we all keep Journals of these times. Many did some still do. We wrote and do write not for today. Memories are short and we seem to want it that way. We write for the future.