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WHAT NOW? BY PHIL WILSON*
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national and local, much of it s we emerge
conflicting and tainted further by
from our
conspiracy theories. This has led to
enforced periods
a great deal of questioning, lack of
of confinement
trust in governments as well as the
like larvae from
media and dissent. Confidence, self-
a cocoon, the
doubt, stress and worry all challenge
question is whether we will flourish
our minds as certainty of anything
into butterflies or suffer the fate
solid is temporarily fractured and
of many and be consumed and
we question how the future will play
lost in the economic food chain.
out.
The average person has spent the
It is unlikely that many will emerge
last few months drowning in an
from 2020 with the same perspective
endless stream of new information
they had going into it. Purely to
relating to an invisible killer. They
exist and survive on a domestic and
have been expected to learn at a
social level we have had to evolve.
rate equivalent to the exponential
The virus has not respected rank
incidence growth of the COVID-19
or bloodline. No-one has been too
virus itself. Strange new words have
‘big’ to remain untouched.
filled our vocabularies. We have
The COVID-19 episode has
tried to understand complicated
demonstrated a global lack of unity,
graphs portraying often very
trust and coordination at state and
distressing facts and we have had
government level. There has been a
to endure changes to our routines
major pre-occupation of comparing
– going against our instinct to
statistics to best fit a nation’s
physically interact with those we
outward stance. Countries have used
love and spending extended periods
different metrics in published figures
away from family and friends.
and inevitably scepticism over the
Information has impacted us from
integrity of reported numbers has
an array of sources – international,
ensued. Statements are open to
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