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Seems strange to me to rush to write a retrospective about an ongoing crisis. I suppose if it were fiction or creative writing, I could understand the impulse,
by xwowsersx 7y ago
Seems strange to me to rush to write a retrospective about an ongoing crisis. I suppose if it were fiction or creative writing, I could understand the impulse, but it doesn't strike me as the case here and, so, smacks of hubris.
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> knowing that we live because so many of them died
The people who survived did so because older people died? How so?
- dannypgh 7y agoReally? It's clearly a work of fiction, set in the future. It opens with "It’s been a couple of year now, since the 2020 Coronavirus disaster"
- screamingninja 7y agoI see two grammatical errors in the opening sentence that you quoted. I'd call it a poor work of fiction. Besides, "the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that the flu kills 290,000 to 650,000 people per year." Coronavirus is a disaster? Ref: https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-people-die-of-the-flu-every-year https://www.health.com/condition/cold-flu-sinus/how-many-peo...
- xwowsersx 7y agoI get that it is fiction by definition since it's set in the future. But it reads like an attempt to prognosticate. And if it's meant as purely creative fiction, it's not particularly good fiction.