It’s March 13th like Gen Z 9/11 ?

[Anonymous]

I am a teacher with school age kids. The date didn’t automatically mean anything to me and opened this to see what happened in the world that I missed this week. No, the day of the covid shut down of schools was nothing like 9-11. March 13th is not etched in many of our minds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher with school age kids. The date didn’t automatically mean anything to me and opened this to see what happened in the world that I missed this week. No, the day of the covid shut down of schools was nothing like 9-11. March 13th is not etched in many of our minds.

Quoting myself. I remember that Friday because one of my kids had friends over and a sleepover. Things didn’t get really serious until the next week and it was a quick progression. Remember, at that point it was just two weeks to flatten the curve…

[Anonymous]

My DS still remembers because his 3rd grade class was supposed to be doing a special project that day which they had been preparing for, and then school was canceled and they never went back to 3rd grade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a teacher with school age kids. The date didn’t automatically mean anything to me and opened this to see what happened in the world that I missed this week. No, the day of the covid shut down of schools was nothing like 9-11. March 13th is not etched in many of our minds.

Quoting myself. I remember that Friday because one of my kids had friends over and a sleepover. Things didn’t get really serious until the next week and it was a quick progression. Remember, at that point it was just two weeks to flatten the curve…

I remember that school was closed that day, but I took my kids to the library for something to do. Then we still went to swim lessons that weekend, and right after the swim class the place announced that they were closing (for 2 weeks, ha!).

[Anonymous]

Ridiculous. My teens just remember the 2020 lockdown, which for us was on March 16th. No dates necessary, and your teen is wrong. The lockdown itself did not cause thousands of deaths. It's COVID which caused millions of deaths worldwide, just like the 1918 flu.

[Anonymous]

It wasn’t the same day for everyone. For my kids (LCPS) it was March 12. For my husband, it was the following Monday.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Huh? I remember my college aged cousins going out to bars for st Patrick’s day on 3/17 before Baltimore city closed the bars the day after.

All k-12 schools in the DMV and most places closed down on March 13, that why of most talk about March 13.

Schools closed. Restaurants, stores, businesses, doctors offices didn’t close until the following week. I was at a bridal shower in DC on the 15th and the restaurant was packed.

Bottom line I don’t think anyone will remember the specific date.

I couldn’t tell you the specific date Reagan was shot or the Space Shuttle exploded or whatever. Heck I don’t even know the exact date Kennedy was assassinated (although I wasn’t alive then).

[Anonymous]

LOL, no.

[Anonymous]

Nope

[Anonymous]

We knew Thursday the 12th. In my family, we call it Dark Thursday

[Anonymous]

Honestly yes but not vividly as 9/11 as a date. Maybe it will end up March 2020 generally. That said say March 13 and I knew exactly what that was. There was rumblings leading up to that day but when they cancelled school that Friday it had tipped officially from wait and see anxiety to oh crap this is really happening.

Most ppl I know still weren’t worried about actual covid until the following week though.

My 4th grader was performing in the school play and it was that Friday, Saturday and Sunday. They only performed Friday for parents as everything was cancelled the day before

[Anonymous]

No because we thought it might only be 2 weeks. The actual first day didn't mean that much at the time. It wasn't supposed to drag on for years. But, within a few months we moved to a place that had in person school starting in the fall, as well as other activities, and never looked back. The people who shut themselves down for two years must be feeling pretty stupid by now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There wasn’t one big day. It was many small days that slowly eroded at normality.

Yes, this.

[Anonymous]

Um, absolutely not. 9/11 terrorist attacks on 2 of the country’s most symbolic cities, collapse of the twin towers on live tv, thousands dead (many who jumped to their deaths), lower Manhattan covered in soot w pedestrians running for their lives…..all followed by a 20 year war on terror and complete change in the legal framework of the U.S., complete reboot of domestic and airport security.

Vs

Lockdown and virtual schooling.


You tell me

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Um, absolutely not. 9/11 terrorist attacks on 2 of the country’s most symbolic cities, collapse of the twin towers on live tv, thousands dead (many who jumped to their deaths), lower Manhattan covered in soot w pedestrians running for their lives…..all followed by a 20 year war on terror and complete change in the legal framework of the U.S., complete reboot of domestic and airport security.

Vs

Lockdown and virtual schooling.


You tell me

Well that a million dead Americans.

9/11, Regan, challenger, impeachment- these are TV moments. Covid was a TV moment. But March 2020 will be a big memory for gen z kids. How could it not be?