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What Will Happen Next?
That’s
the subject of a number of COVID-19 pieces I ran across this last week.
You may not want to read all of them, but here are ones I found most
compelling:
- “Common Enemy” scans history to ponder what COVID-19 will do to us. The author thinks World War II might be the best guide to the future:
World
War II united most of the world against a common enemy in a way that’s
incredibly rare. Cooperation within, and between, countries surged.
The
fight against COVID-19 is nearly identical in that respect. This may be
the first time since the 1940s that so much of the world is united so
firmly against such a specific foe.
What
unity did to people’s behaviors – their abilities, their outlooks,
their incentives – surprised many during World War II. If history is any
guide, we’re about to be surprised again.
- From the same website (Collaborative Fund) and same author (Morgan Housel) we have “Wounds Heal, Scars Last.” Just as the Great Depression and World War II shaped the psychology of a generation, Housel argues, so will this pandemic.
- On a more prosaic note, Michael Brenden Doughtery at the National Review, on
the way to arguing that masks will never become normalized in the US as
they are in, for example, many Asian cultures, gives us a theology of masks along the way.
For Inspiration
Two pieces to consider. The longer one is
Pope Francis’ sermon
from his March 27 global prayer service. It was extraordinary in my
view, and (except for some Catholic notes at the end) helpful for all
Christians. It begins:
“When evening had come” (Mk 4:35).
The Gospel passage we have just heard begins like this. For weeks now
it has been evening. Thick darkness has gathered over our squares, our
streets and our cities; it has taken over our lives, filling everything
with a deafening silence and a distressing void, that stops everything
as it passes by; we feel it in the air, we notice in people’s gestures,
their glances give them away. We find ourselves afraid and lost. Like
the disciples in the Gospel we were caught off guard by an unexpected,
turbulent storm. …
Grace and peace,
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