Open AccessCOVID 19 and The New Normal
Author(s) -
Syed Muhammad Imran Majeed,
Rehma Ahsan Gilani
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
life and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-2970
pISSN - 2521-0475
DOI - 10.37185/lns.1.1.120
Subject(s) - humanity , hatred , verisimilitude , paranoia , ignorance , covid-19 , homo sapiens , political science , sociology , philosophy , law , epistemology , psychology , medicine , disease , pathology , politics , anthropology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , psychotherapist
The world is waking up to a new reality where an invisible enemy has made human contact contagious and exposed the long-hidden fault line of verisimilitude, blurring the lines between reality and paranoia. The global reaction is unprecedented with world economy virtually at a standstill. The economic fallout of the outbreak could trigger a recession of unparalleled scale. But is economics the only challenge? The pandemic is attacking societies at their core. The author of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari puts it well when he writes “The biggest danger is not the virus itself. Humanity has all the scientific knowledge and technological tools to overcome the virus. The really big problem is our own inner demons, our own hatred, greed and ignorance”