How we can emerge more resilient from the COVID-19 crisis
It's been a while since people in more developed nations really felt an existential threat. While nations aren't going to trust each other and collaborate effectively as a result of this, nor are human beings going to suddenly acquire universal compassion, maybe the needle can move a little bit.1. We could learn what it really means to be a global community.
It won’t be complete, and there will be large unconnected areas, but the planet is already knit together in a way we’ve never seen before. At the same time, as borders close and travel becomes restricted, we are also practicing social distancing on the level of nation-states.We knew this in theory, but that stuff is about to get real. Different kinds of work are, in their current incarnation, more resilient to physical distancing whereas other jobs and industries are very brittle.
People living week-to-week have no cushion and no parachute. We'll see terrible suffering as a significant proportion of the population is unable to sustain day-to-day life due to financial issues. Governments will have greater difficulty ignoring glaring problems. If there are plans to deal with this on a mass level, they aren't being shared.We just got started with this in the last few decades, and it's only now starting to accelerate.
ought to work together when it comes to communities fighting contagion. When the disaffected Peter Parker let the mugger run away, little did he know he would later cause his Uncle Ben’s death by heart attack when Ben stood up to the same thief—leading to his own transformation through learning from adversity into Spiderman. Social antiviral response requires a level of collective
and coordination we clearly cannot yet muster. Unfortunately, superheroes are not typically well-integrated.if death by pestilence runs deep on symbolic and genetic levels. The Black Plague, 1918, chronic infections like Varicella and HIV—infection has not been defeated. Most people will find a way through this, though the losses are profound already and will continue to deepen.
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