Archiving the Pandemic

CES (com)vida 2020

Stop Looking on the Bright Side: We’ll Be Screwed By the Pandemic for Years to Come

John F. Harris

POLITICO

Overview

In this realistic and humorous note on COVID-19, John Harris stresses the centrality of science and the emerging idea that most analysts do not innovate conceptually in the face of the epidemic but carry on with their previous evangelizations.

Could this crisis accentuate in the medium and long term individualism and withdrawal from public affairs?

John Harris ends with three questions that compel us to reflect on the imperative need to rehabilitate public decisions and discourse.