IIn the fight against Covid-19, analogies to war work work to a certain extent, not least in the emphasis on the severity and extent of what we are experiencing. Of the 185 million confirmed cases worldwide, more than four million people have died, normal rules for organizing a civil society and economy have been suspended, and there is widespread hope that we are planning for a better future.
But fighting a virus is not a war. First of all, people around the world are on the same page. The coronavirus is a public health crisis – and an extremely complex, mutating one at that. This situation does not lend itself to the superficial idea that “Freedom Day” for England or any other will end on July 19th