One New Yorker shares how it felt to live through a tragic event like 9/11 and how those events prepared them for the pandemic.
, “We are asking the American public to work with us to prepare for the expectation that this could be bad.” She went on to suggest that we might need to do homeschooling and we might need to “modify, postpone or cancel mass gatherings.” And then she said, “Now is the time for businesses, hospitals, communities, schools and everyday people to begin preparing,”
During the days after 9/11, I learned to live in a city that was pretty much convinced that its own destruction was imminent. For months there were drills and tests and warnings. Awent into effect to denote the risk of a terrorist attack. Bridges and tunnels were always being shut down. The typical soundtrack of the city—distant or nearby sirens—became immediate causes of anxiety. The feeling of low-grade panic stretched out for months. The subway became scary in a way it never had before.
As I later would during the pandemic, I felt a feeling of underlying dread, a sense that the other shoe was going to drop. But I also oddly felt more of a resolve to stay in the city, my city. During both 9/11 and the height of the pandemic I felt likewhere I was from—like being a New Yorker was my identity and I couldn't relinquish it even for my own safety.
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