Chapter 4 Pandemic Communication in Our Current Media and Communication Environment

DOI: 10.4324/9781003267522-4

We, the poor, are immune to the coronavirus.

Miguel Ángel Barbosa

There are so many memories that I have—that we likely all have—from this pandemic. I am just starting to unpack mine here in this book. Perhaps you are doing the same in your own life.

Some of these memories are universal—I think we can all recall …

The death.

The dying.

The shuttering of businesses and quarantining.

The panic buying.

Seeing field hospitals being stood up.

Seeing the mass graves fill up with people who had died from COVID.

The introduction of the new COVID vaccine.

The mask-wearing.

The variants.

There are so many others, and we will get to many ...

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