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Originally Posted by hildea
I wouldn't mind depictions of Covid in books, but I've been lucky enough that the pandemic had relatively little impact on me.
I remember a little jolt of surprise the first time I read a content warning in a book published early in 2020, telling readers that the book mentions "The 1918 flu pandemic and the spread of infectious disease." I hadn't thought about it before, but I can certainly understand that many readers would prefer to avoid that in their fiction for a good while.
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That disclaimer seems kind of nuts. For one thing, in early 2020 covid was barely on the radar. For another, if the book was significantly about the earlier pandemic, surely that would have been obvious from the synopis or blurb (if the flu was mentioned only in passing, why bother?), and could have been easily avoided if one so desired.
I sought out fiction about the 1918 pandemic in the early days of covid. I think it was a bit of a comfort to read about something in the distant past that had been overcome. I did something similar after 9/11; I read political thrillers about terrorism.