Planet Normal’s Lockdown Heroes
Planet Normal
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The Damage of the Covid Pandemic
It's important not to get bogged down in a debate about did the medical consequences outweigh the economic ones. I think second, the biggest damage is probably going to be psychological attitudinal. A sense of disempowerment, lack of control over your own life will make it much harder to recover. One of the really damaging effects is that the pandemic has normalized the idea that some things can't or should not be said. We saw the informal control of social media, videos, all this sort of thing. And I think we are still living through that and we'll see it applied to other areas in future.
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