When COVID-19 hit, the world was confronted with an immediate crisis. But now a second crisis is becoming clear - the collective trauma of the pandemic. The last time so many people were traumatized at once was World War II. Pandemics don't really fit into either category, but we do have some research from SARS and MERS.
Five years ago, a vast wave of migrants and refugees began to spill into the country. We examine their fates amid a tangle of bureaucracy. Even for the uninfected, the coronavirus has caused widespread “collective trauma”; we ask about its effects and how to heal from it. And Palestinians sneak to the beach as security forces look the other way.
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