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A review by cmdrburton
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
I really enjoyed this book. It's a lovely story, and the rating says enough. Interesting reading this in 2024, ten years after the book came out... five years after our own global pandemic.
I guess my main consolation is that something like the Georgia Flu—kills 99% of infected with an incubation period of a few hours—likely cannot happen in our world. Our current pandemic has long incubation times and kills far fewer people than it infects, which allows it to spread before people are even aware they're infected—key to its "success." Ebola's spread was limited because it killed half the people infected, despite being more contagious than smallpox.
So if you were worried about that, fellow readers, I hope this helps.
I guess my main consolation is that something like the Georgia Flu—kills 99% of infected with an incubation period of a few hours—likely cannot happen in our world. Our current pandemic has long incubation times and kills far fewer people than it infects, which allows it to spread before people are even aware they're infected—key to its "success." Ebola's spread was limited because it killed half the people infected, despite being more contagious than smallpox.
So if you were worried about that, fellow readers, I hope this helps.