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Andreas Kluth – We Must Start Planning For a Permanent Pandemic – Asharq Al-awsat – English
For the past year, an assumption — sometimes explicit, often tacit — has informed almost all our thinking about the pandemic: At some point, it will be over, and…
For the past year, an assumption sometimes explicit, often tacit has informed almost all our thinking about the pandemic: At some point, it will be over, and then well go back to normal.
This premise is almost certainly wrong. SARS-CoV-2, protean and elusive as it is, may become our permanent enemy, like the flu but worse. And even if it peters out eventually, our lives and routines will by then have changed irreversibly. Going back wont be an option; the only way is forward. But to what exactly?
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