Perspective: Pandemic, panic and toilet paper math
If you want to get really deep into the most woo-woo of gender stereotypes: on Wednesday you could have watched President Trump talk about using “tough measures,” “vigilance” and “authority” to “defeat” the virus. And then you could watch former Democratic presidential candidatetalk about the “infinite love” necessary for “healing” the world of the virus. She ended her guided meditation by staring into the camera and whispering, “Go wash your hands.
The medical historian Frank Snowden gave an interview to the New Yorker recently about pandemics and epidemics and what they all mean for societies. “Epidemics are a category of disease that seem to hold up the mirror to human beings as to who we really are,” he told the magazine. “They show the moral relationships that we have toward each other as people.”We are in the very early stages of learning how those moral relationships will be revealed in the age ofperiod. Disneyland only just closed.
We are not in a state of emergency if you are down to your last three rolls of toilet paper. We are in a state of emergency if you have 96 rolls, and some people have no rolls, and you don’t care.
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