I have this bad feeling about those new strains that popped up, but then again I don’t expect good things to happed anymore.

  • Nagarjuna [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Follow up: Who will get to go back to normal first, and who will never get to go back to normal?

    Which communities will Covid become endemic to? Which children will grow up to have "normal" biopsychosocial development and career trajectories? Who will go back to housing and who won't? Where will re-open entirely and where will have rolling shutdowns? What will our world look like 1 year after? Will there be unrest and even revolution; what will our world look like in 5?

    Covid isn't just a disruption of life, it's a crisis in the Gramscian sense, it is a complete break from the past. To quote Zizek misquoting Gramsci, "the old world is dying, the new struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters."