I think any writer that uses the phrase “age of coronavirus” should be fired on the spot.
This isn’t an “age”. It’s a disease outbreak that will be over, one way or another, by this time next year (either we’ll have a vaccine or enough people will have convalescent antibodies).
It’s a lost year and “time out” but nothing will change unless people really want them to and other stakeholders agree. For example, a lot of people will want to work from home sometimes, and if their employers allow it they might. But there will be no big lasting transformation of society.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." - Isaac Asimov
Last edited by 10023; Jul 2, 2020 at 1:04 PM.
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