Items

A Journal of the Plague Year Arizona Collection Australia Boston Bronx Community College New York Brooklyn College New York Canada Las Americas Lockdown Staten Island New Orleans Oral Histories Philippines Sacramento Community Based Organizations Southwest Stories Teaching the Pandemic The City College of New York

unkown

Monty Python coronavirus meme

As of late February and into March, many parts of the world still had not yet seen major outbreaks. Many felt that their governments - in New York, Washington, Tokyo, and elsewhere - were not doing nearly enough to prepare for what was coming. People circulated memes and explanations about how exponential growth can sneak up, seeming small for a long time until suddenly it explodes into a crisis-level. This meme, drawing on a clip from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, makes fun of that process.