The world will be as one
Not quite the way Lennon envisioned in Imagine, but an invisible virus has swiftly put everyone on the same page to protect a single planet. It will refine globalism and make us accountable
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IN A FEW MONTHS when the tumult caused by the novel coronavirus subsides to a level where people have stopped panicking and more clues emerge on how to stay safe or battle this zoonotic scourge, there may be time to appreciate just how much the world has changed.
From an outpouring of global angst on social media to crackpot remedies and feel-good memes, the Internet has crackled with the zeitgeist of our times - abject terror, its bandwidth devoured by the new crusaders clicking likes, and perhaps not very many actually doing anything about it.
One of the first things anyone can do apart from continuing with safe social habits and the enforced cleanliness that has been foisted upon us like a divine epiphany, is to get working speedily in some productive sphere - your own, or in borrowed garb if your industry has collapsed or the job has migrated.
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