Waiting for the Coronavirus: Memories from a Pandemic

How the H1N1 flu pandemic in Mexico disrupted our country, city, jobs, schools, and daily lives in April 2009

Photo by Esparta Palma (CC BY 2.0) at Flickr

The new coronavirus(COVID-19) pandemic has reminded me of the 2009 influenza (H1N1) pandemic in Mexico, commonly referred to as “swine flu”. What I keep in my memory are images, scenes, mental…