It’s Okay That You’re Not Okay
We’re all in mourning from the death of normalcy.
This is what hit me yesterday afternoon at work as I took a walking-around break, reading news on my phone.
This pandemic is an event that will have a lasting effect on people, and on cultures, local and worldwide. More so than something like 9/11, I think.
What it’ll do to politics is anyone’s guess. Will it lead to more authoritarianism? Or will people stop tolerating the casual cruelties of capitalism, once they realize that some of them can be relaxed? Will we come out of this with a stronger social safety net, a less divided nation? Or a lot of dead poor people and a broken economy and discouraged generations?