Now that all of the mask required and social distancing signs are pretty much gone there will be little record of that aspect of the pandemic.

I wish I took more photos

      • papalonian@kbin.social
        9·
        1 year ago

        Individual websites come and go, yes, but COVID literally dominated every and all aspects of everyday life for the better part of 2020. It’s like saying that everyone is gonna forget that WWII happened because most of the newspapers from the time have stopped running.

  • Jabbawacky@feddit.uk
    414·
    1 year ago

    People forgot about the similar pandemic in 1919 or so. Everything repeated, including the anti-vaxxers.

    So yes it will happen again and again. As will war, and everything else shit yet inherent in human nature.

    • Gigan@lemmy.world
      242·
      1 year ago

      I saw pictures of everyone wearing masks during the 1919 pandemic. And that was before everyone had cameras in their pockets. OP is exaggerating, people aren’t going to forget about it.

  • neptune@dmv.socialEnglish
    30·
    1 year ago

    Not at all. You still see “mask required” signs that just haven’t been taken down. There’s wedding pictures. Every professional photographer was taking masked photos because for a year or two, many companies would only publish masked photos in certain contexts… They will find the pictures for the history books.

  • Starb3an@sh.itjust.works
    22·
    1 year ago

    I worked for a company that started manufacturing masks (the N95 ones) during the pandemic and we still make and sell masks. I won’t be forgetting since I still work on the machines.

  • asteriskeverything@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    It was in the news daily and one of maybe 5 main topics of discussion for like 3 solid years. I’m good lol.

    I think we have plenty of record of what it was like. Between that and social media not too sure what you mean.

  • dsmk
    151·
    1 year ago

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    • XeroxCool@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Facebook’s shitty search ability, retribution against reddit, photobucket’s apocalypse, dozens of site rebrandings, and the death of hundreds of other popular sites has proven posts on the internet are as temporary as paper. It only lasts if someone properly archives it, just as was the case with those 1919 newspaper articles.

      • Jimbo@yiffit.net
        21·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, whoever said whatever you post on the internet is there forever was SO wrong. Want to find stuff from 2008 even? Yeah good luck

  • squiblet@kbin.social
    61·
    1 year ago

    I did this, in fact. I took photos of every Covid and mask related sign I saw in 2020 and 2021.