Covid-19 is showing us a brutally honest mirror
Question from the Internet:
“If Covid will appear to be no more serious than the yearly flu in years to come, will society still be struggling because of the financial economic fall out from it?”
This is a very important question.
The pandemic is not simply a disease, an infection that affects people’s health. The pandemic also showed us a brutally honest mirror, so we could observe and observe our not at all good “general health".
The Covid-19 virus is not a particularly virulent, aggressive virus that causes significant mortality, morbidity compared to other viruses, plagues causing epidemics, pandemics. The havoc, general destruction it caused for us both physically and in terms of our socioeconomic system relates to how we reacted to it, in what state the pandemic found is in.
The pandemic didn’t caused the global, socioeconomic crisis, collapse we still haven’t started to feel, comprehend. Our human system — based on unnatural, excessive overconsumption, ruthless competition, succeeding at each other’s and nature’s expense — has been in crisis for decades, but we kept the system on life-support with different, mostly virtual bailout, stimulus packages aimed only at meeting the “endless profit" following to a small minority.
The pandemic simply pulled the plug on this life-support.
And while we evolved into a totally integrated, interdependent world we reacted to the virus in our usual, instinctive, self-serving, subjective, individualistic, nationalistic ways, making the pandemic much worse than it should have been.
What comes next solely depends on how much we learn from what with this brutally honest mirror the pandemic shows us, how willing we are to change ourselves, to change how we relate to each other and Nature.