Children’s books authors have indeed responded to the dilemmas
posed suddenly by Covid-19.
The IASC (Interagency Standing Committee) of W.H.O. hired a collaborative team to write “MyHero Is You: How Kids Can Fight Covid-19”.
You can download the booklet free.
There is a little more text than I recall seeing from the earliest grade
school readers.
Of course, the writers are trying to manipulate kids into
accepting sudden paradigm changes for behavior that seem bizarre even to
adults. There is even the idea in some
literature that heroes wear masks.
There is Elizabeth Verdick’s 2014 booklet ‘Germs Are Not for
Sharing” (preview).
Of course, the bigger concept is that in nature, many more
germs are beneficial and necessary (like in your intestinal tract) than
harmful, and the beneficial bacterial compete with the dangerous ones. That is
one more reason why the concept will seem so arbitrary and dictated by
authority.
And then there is a "Germ Book" (video).
Pictures: from a boyhood train set, maybe around 1953. I just found this in the estate stuff so I used it.
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