spread on board. The NBA suspended its season. Office workers were sent home and the financial district felt like an abandoned movie set. Since then, museums have been collecting objects to help future generations understand the tumult of these times. Some are motivated by what they wished they had from the 1918 pandemic. Many want to ensure that the diversity of experience is not forgotten. The story of these last two years is not straightforward, nor is it over.
In the frantic days of that first lockdown, most heritage staff were redeployed. Neil Brochu, the supervisor of collections and outreach, spent most of the early pandemic working in a shelter. Avdichuk spent half her days on roving security detail, checking in on the city’s 10 museums, emptying the garbage, making sure there was no food left behind in the fridge.
, drawing “qualified praise from the gay community he has repeatedly angered,” the Star’s Daniel Dale reported at the time.When the playgrounds were shut down, they called up city departments to save a few signs. When a Twitter account brought attention to Dr. Eileen de Villa’s habit of wearing a different scarf at each public health briefing, they asked Toronto’s medical officer of health for one of them, and she obliged.
je me souviens Wuhan