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Guessing the Numbers
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Guessing the Numbers
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As Melbourne’s second wave crested and fell in mid-2020, “the presser” was appointment viewing; “the number” could bring hope or despair. Sometime in the dreary days of lockdown, my family started guessing how many cases would be reported each day. Keeping a running tally of who was closest to the pin. Perhaps it was a way of taking control of the uncontrollable. Dealing with the apparent randomness of the numbers that controlled every aspect of our lives. Some of the scraps of paper we used to write on were time capsules of a vanished world: a rough sketch of enrolments for the second half of my BA; an invoice from a tradesman; a reminder note to pick someone up from hospital. Plans, visitors, outings – all overwritten by inexorable quotidian sameness. Submitted for University of Melbourne HIST30060, Semester 2 2021.
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photograph
text story
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English
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Home & Family Life
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Date Submitted (Dublin Core)
2021/11/02
11/02/2021
11/02/2021
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2021/11/09
11/09/2021
11/09/2021
3/25/2022
04/19/2022
Date Created (Dublin Core)
2020/08/01
08/01/2020
08/01/2020
This item was submitted on November 1, 2021 by Patrick Gigacz using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive
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