Indledning
As we start analyzing “How Pandemics Wreak Havoc — and Open Minds” we hear about Pomata who is a sixty-nine-year-old woman, that lives in Italy. Italy has been very affected by the recent COVID-19 pandemic, that has come very close to home for everyone in the whole world.
Italy is one of the countries where COVID-19 had a massive impact, because of the difficulties within the Italian cultures. Italians live very close to each other, and family is everything. This occasionally leads to the Italians being very close to each other in very small spaces.
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Uddrag
The language used in this interview is informal, and it gives us an impression of a casual conversation. References to middle ages confirm that Pomata is a retired professor at the Institute of the History of Medicine, at Johns Hopkins University.
Pomata has knowledge about the middle ages, and she uses her knowledge to compare it to recent times “When we first talked, on Skype, she immediately compared covid-19 to the bubonic plague that struck Europe in the fourteenth century” (p. 15, ll. 9-11) Pomata claims that the bubonic plague marked the beginning of something else.
This could very well be the exact same thing happening right now. Before COVID-19 we were used to being able to have close physical contact. That is not the case anymore.
We are very aware of our physical actions now, and without a vaccine against COVID19, we are not going to be able to have the same kind of physical contact.
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