'you never forget your first apocalypse' (crow feather)

'you never forget your first apocalypse' jokes the presenter.

but you do. because they occupy finite areas of time and they don't fit into the historical narrative and because soon enough you are back to everyday grind of capitalism. and so covid and the spanish flu vanish over the horizon (until the next virus comes). one of the interesting things about the spanish flu is how little a dent it left in the historical record overshadowed by WW1..

horsemouth suspects that it will go similarly with covid.  

down in the comments fans argue that he has misunderstood the last of us and selectively reviewed it. the last of us has (in the tv series version) the classic flashbacks to the 'they warned us' moments. 

and here we are in the post-apocalyptic present.

horsemouth supposes that the pandemic marks a point of transition for him so he is more inclined to remember it. it obviously continues to have effects - inflation, the re-routing of brexit (the failure to launch of the victory parade and the sunny post-brexit uplands) and to not affect other areas - the cold war continues (ukraine), the rise of china continues - capitalism restructures round these. 

horsemouth picked up a crow feather a few days ago but then he wondered if that were wise given bird flu. at some stage bird flu will not just cross the species barrier (it has done that already) but become transmissible between humans (and at that point we could face another pandemic).

yesterday an annoying day. the progress people were looking towards could not be made. horsemouth went up onto the common to fume. later he ate dinner and watched some tv. 

the man with the mower has been and scalped the hills. horsemouth should probably rake some of the grass off - he needs to discuss it with his dad, he knows about such things.

horsemouth should emphasise that it is very beautiful out here at the moment. the sun has not baked the vegetation yet. it is still lush. in particular the wildflowers in the hedgerows (but sadly not on the bankings that have been mowed).