This has all happened before ( pandemic)- 6 photos

There's controversy over the poem, it appears to of been written in 2020. Or that is what is being said.
But it doesn't matter to me.
Still a nice piece.
And those pictures are amazing.

Off Topic:
When I was just a kid, my Aunt bought me a typewriter (Underwood) almost exactly like the one pictured. I think she thought it would just be a toy for few years. I was maybe in 5th grade.
I used that old Underwood typewriter, all the way through High School. It was amazingly well built. I remember staying up late nights rushing to get last minute papers out, clacking away on that old typewriter.
It weighed a lot. But was put together so well. I think I eventually sold it at an estate sale to someone who just wanted it for decoration. But even then it still worked just the type roller had dried out and hardened, which was starting to damage the keys.

 

The poem strikes me as contemporary. 1869 would be more Longfellow-ish, I reckon.

Jinx.

 

I learned how to type in High School on an underwood. Of course, the one I learned on was built sometime in the early 1970's...........

 

at least their 12 volts weren't dying

 

What about their 6 volts?

 

Innovators in Battery Technology: Profiles of 95 Influential Electrochemists - Kevin Desmond - Google Books

 

Hey, I read the book from 2017. The Pale Rider book.

In my opinion we have NOT learned and are making the same mistakes they did about 1920.

I hope. I sincerely hope, I am wrong. But, if history teaches us anything, it repeats. And, I think we are in for a big reboot of this whole thing. Again, I sincerely hope I am an alarmist idiot.

https://www.lauraspinney.com/pale-rider/

 

who can remember a hundred years ago? let's hope it's another hundred before the next one

 

We have dagnabbed historians. And schools.

 

sure, but there's no payoff this time around