Who owns your memories? Covid19 and the desire for hope

Factories empty, machines shut down, drills motionless, a lone car engine, emptiness. What are your covid memories? Scientists tell us that we have different types of memory. Some memory requires conscious effort: explicit memory. Then, in contrast, we have implicit memory with different stages - short term, long term - and sensory memory. Some memories can be episodic, as in biographical life events or semantic where we hold an ability to recall numbers, words, or concepts without even thinking about how we know the answer - 2x2 is four, that colour is red, that blue, and that animal is a dog, those things we know. But read the psychology literature and you’ll find the memory is a liar, our eyes don’t see clearly, as a species we have a tendency to fill in the gaps, change our tune, sugar coat and paper over cracks and tell the story differently. I have my reservations with this and can hold in one hand that sometimes I may not remember everything, and that my story may change, but with the other hand, as I look around me now what comes to mind is vivid. I feel what I remember is a truthful experience of some of the consequences of covid, and it happened.