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Pandemic-fatigue | Weekly Snapshot

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It got busy this week! Lots going on at home, work, and otherwise as well.  Life My daughter's school decided to close on Friday, along with several other schools in the area, with some being closed from Thursday. Not enough staff. The school had been on a mask mandate since the beginning of the pandemic, dropping it only for one week when the pandemic had appeared to have stabilized last year. And yet, they dropped the mandate completely at the beginning of this year, when cases were exponentially rising, only to bring it back again starting next week. I've gone from being very annoyed to angry to feeling fatigue in these first two weeks already. I won't lie - we all mask around here and try to avoid going where we don't have a need to be in, and still, we are not taking anything close to the extreme precaution we all took at the beginning of the pandemic. I cannot and don't want to keep my kids home - I have at least that much faith in the schools' precautions
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Holocaust Remembrance Day

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I quite forgot to mention this in my Sunday Salon post, so I'm writing a separate post.

Today is the Holocaust Remembrance Day, in commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camps. Go ahead an read some book about this period. Jennifer G. has compiled a very good list of books in her post today. In addition, if you are a TV show buff, I would recommend Band of Brothers and The Pacific. I plan to catch up with the episodes of The Pacific during this week. Both the TV shows are based on several non-fiction books that extensively chronicle the horrors of the World War 2.

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Helen's Book Blog said…
My Masters work was on the Holocaust (and my dissertation would have been as well, but I realized I loved teaching too much). There are so many good Holocaust memoirs out there!

And, Band of Brothers is wonderful! I haven't seen Pacific yet.
April 11, 2010 at 7:53 PM
Athira said…
Helen, I second that! There definitely are plenty of books based on that time period! I loved BoB too! :)
April 11, 2010 at 8:02 PM
Jen at Introverted Reader said…
Thanks for spreading the word!

I don't watch a lot of tv, so I haven't seen either show. I wonder if I can add them to my Netflix? Off to check.
April 11, 2010 at 10:19 PM
Athira said…
Jennifer, both shows are available to view on the HBO website, in case netflix doesn't work out. But they are worth watching! Awesome shows!
April 11, 2010 at 11:15 PM
Anonymous said…
That must be part of the reason why PBS showed The Diary of Anne Frank last night. No matter how many times I read the book, or see a play or film, I weep. It's so heartbreaking that so many people suffered so tragically. I think what's also frightening is that it doesn't seem so impossible that it could happen again in this crazy world. When I was little, I used to think it was just an isolated incident, now I'm not so sure that we couldn't see our government becoming so radical in this day and age. I suspect that's just fear and distrust speaking, when once I believed in whom we voted for.
April 12, 2010 at 8:07 PM
Athira said…
Bellezza, that is probably why! I haven't watched that movie, but read the book last year and cried a lot... all that tragedy. And I share your sentiment.. there are many times I feel that it can happen again. Even if a full scale war hasn't happened since, we have had revolutions and bloodshed in so many countries (and still happening) that it really breaks me.
April 12, 2010 at 9:10 PM
Lisa said…
I listened to a radio program today with a holocaust survivor speaking. She had me in tears time and again. I fear that when all of the survivors are gone, the full horror of what happened will begin to dim.
April 13, 2010 at 12:44 AM
Athira said…
Lisa, that is a thought that has often crossed my mind. Right now, we have so many legacies speaking to us.. years later, there will be none, how then do we keep this memory intact so that it never happens again?
April 13, 2010 at 10:01 PM
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