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Is Covid an Existential Threat?
i hoped 18 months ago that covid was going to be that thing, and it just hasn't. It doesn't seem to have occurred anywhere. It's not an existence threat. But even despite all that, in the fact that we had to stay away from people in order to protect people, which is deeply antithetical to the sort of human, human reflexes during the crisis. i think for a modern society that's very mfractured and alienated there was actually a fair amount of communal sentiment around all of this.