28. Five takeaways from the pandemic – and they’re not what you think

This pandemic shall pass, like everything does. But things won’t go back to exactly where they were.

We will see whether these strange times will prove to be a watershed or something less significant. But the pandemic has highlighted and affected some features of our society that aren’t as natural as we think, to the extent we think about them at all:

• Money

• The workplace

• Fear and authority

• Knowledge and science

• Global coordination