HIEA 114 Wk1 post

Hello everybody. Happy Spring quarter. My name is William and I am a fourth-year Japanese Studies major. I love to play guitar and drum during my free time. As an animal lover, I am living with a dog and two cats. I am taking this course for my major and I am looking forward to working with you all!

What resonates with you about how Solnit and/or Cooke have written about disaster, and the kind of communities that form in response?

Jennifer Cooke, who had researched the field of plague for years, talked about how the world would turn like at the start of the COVID pandemic. She noted how communities would shrink into smaller ones “Whether your neighbour survives may depend upon you, whether the man who lives two doors down from us gets to hospital may depend upon our car.” As the world push for social distancing, members of the smaller community come closer together to help each other survive. I resonate with this very much as my family also became part of such a community when everything start going south two years ago. Hate crime against Asians was common, which encouraged my neighborhood to create a group in which members would provide arm support to each other in case of emergency. Luckily I believe no one had encountered such a situation.