COVID-19 pandemic brings a long list of moments that historians say should be archived for future generations.Esyllt Jones is a history professor with St.
John’s College, University of Manitoba, who studies the 1918-19 influenza pandemic.She says there’s a difference between private and public memory.
She believes a gap between the two was made during the Spanish flu and hopes history does not repeat itself. From Spanish Flu to COVID-19, a Manitoba centenarian weighs in on pandemic life “Education can play a really big role in bridging that space between what people remember in their own families and communities or what’s in history textbooks or history curricula,” Jones says.She says it’s important for people who have suffered this past.