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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9837042" data-attributes="member: 78087">I think, weirdly, the Blip is often taken as an analogy for Covid in the MCU these days and that both works and doesn’t. It works because Covid is, culturally speaking, a topic for a great deal of cultural amnesia and general brushing under the rug while having affected absolutely everyone, some (unfortunately) very profoundly, in dozens of ways.But as Dorian Lynskey pointed out, Covid is a subject for collective amnesia because it was both irresistible and meaningless - we didn’t make it happen, it wasn’t a war or other deliberate act, it didn’t make us better or worse, we just had to learn from it and move on. In this it’s quite like the 1918-9 flu pandemic, which killed far more people than Covid (50m vs 7m) and indeed more people than WW1 (17m), but in the same way was meaningless and horrific, and almost everyone tried to forget it had happened as soon as possible.It doesn’t work because the Blip was a deliberate act, and by a threat most people didn’t really know about before (Thanos and alien invaders in general, the Battle of New York notwithstanding). It affected everyone on a much more catastrophic level, killing 4bn people and probably bringing our civilisation to its knees - you really can’t run things with half the people, never mind the accompanying psychological damage, accidents, etc. - before suddenly resurrecting them again. I think people would be trying to forget it and move on as hard as possible, but I think it wouldn’t allow them to, mostly.</blockquote>

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