MARCH 22 — For some time, normal life carried on around the virus. It was, for many people, something happening elsewhere or to other people but no longer. Covid-19 is happening to all of us as borders shut, markets collapse and things we have taken for granted like free...
MARCH 22 — For some time, normal life carried on around the virus. Covid-19 is happening to all of us as borders shut, markets collapse and things we have taken for granted like free movement, air travel, late-night shopping and bars are suddenly no longer available.
Malaysians who work in Singapore but live in Johor Baru were particularly badly affected but the impact of such a drastic action can be felt everywhere. Even during WWII it was possible to sail from one part of Asia to another but now many countries are completely locked down. Some of the world’s most important cities like New York, London and Paris have also effectively shut themselves down which is again absolutely unprecedented.
The fragility of the world system — of the economics and the technology that makes the modern world — has been laid bare.
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