In the car yesterday I heard a clip of a radio programme where a professor said, 'This is such a major occurrence that in future historians will look back on this time as BC and AC, Before Corona and After Corona.'
As significant as that?
Climate change and pollution affect us all but in subtle long-term ways. Other disasters tend to be focused and area specific. Recently Australia had bush fires, and parts of England and Wales were flooded; at other times countries have dealt with the consequences of earthquakes, famine and war. In each of these cases most of the world has looked on, sympathetic but not involved. But now it's different.
I have blogging friends in the southern states of the USA, and in Canada, in Australia and Europe, and everyone of us is going though the same thing at the moment: whether it's quarantine, lockdown, or self-isolation. We're all seeing libraries closing, and businesses struggling.
This isn't a deep philosophical post - shared humanity, likenesses greater than our differences - or anything like that but just an invitation. I'm on FaceBook and I post short, usually silly, comments on there most days. If you're on Facebook, please friend me, and we can keep each other's spirits up.
I am happy that all the people who regularly comment here are 'people like me' and I think your FaceBook comments/photos would be far more entertaining than a lot of stuff I'm currently getting.
I realise now this is far from a philanthropic post but is, in fact, selfish cry of Save me!
I'm never sure what my 'handle is on FaceBook but try variations of Liz Hinds possibly with 99 at the end. My page is liz dot hinds 1 - no spaces. If that helps.
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I don't know if that professor is right -- seems a bit overstated to me. The world has lived through and survived much tougher things than the coronavirus. The economic fallout of it may be with us for quite awhile though.
Alas, I'm not on Facebook so I can only follow you here!
IMHO, the world will definitely be a different (perhaps better?) place when those who survive come out of the tunnel that is the COVID-19 experience. I think it may be better because the world's inhabitants will have had a common experience. Some of the reason that we have trouble relating with one another across borders is that we don't have enough "in common". Sadly, this deadly event will provide commonality.
While on the subject of commonality, I would like to comment that commonality is the reason I support (what we in the States call) public schooling rather than private schooling. Common backgrounds in what children learn give them more commonality than when the learning is slanted as is so frequently the case in private schools (often, by religion).
Cop Car
Yes, Debra, and no doubt the Tories will use it for years to explain the disaster of the economy and our health service.
Yes, I agree, CopCar, but sadly I fear we will soon forget.
P.S. I can't friend you as I dropped FB several years ago when they changed their "privacy" policy so that we no longer had privacy.
Many years ago in a sociology class, we had an exercise that demonstrated to me that the British were the only society of which I had a preconception. I always, then and now, think of Brits as keeping a stiff upper lip. I'm hoping that your stiff upper lip will be in the form of a smile. ; )
Cop Car
It usually is, CopCar!
I'm not sure anything (so far) changes the world irrevocably. Humans are adaptable and easily slide back to habits of a lifetime.
I agree, Pam.
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