Today's pandemic will eventually fade, but the normality we knew before will not return...Uncertainty may be [the post-pandemic world's] dominant feature.
Recent research suggests that the 1918 flu had broad and long-lasting societal impacts. The social disruption caused by it significantly eroded people's trust, and the most fascinating finding—this lack of trust was inherited by descendants and persisted decades after the pandemic.
The consequences of the pandemic, the war in Ukraine and climate change have all contributed to uncertainty about the future—about whether humankind even has a future. The resulting distress may fundamentally change the way people think and behave in a seemingly more hostile and unpredictable world, the way they view the legitimacy of government authority, how we value life itself.
These last two years have resembled the disorders seen during the Plague of Athens during the Peloponnesian War and the Black Death in the Middle Ages, which frayed the fabric of society. Just like now, the historian Thucydides noted that"Athens owed to the plague the beginnings of lawlessness." According to the 14th century Italian poet Giovanni Boccaccio, people in Florence behaved like animals during the plague."Every man for himself" attitudes prevailed.
COVID-19 has seen similar kinds of scapegoating. Extremist groups have exploited the situation to recruit followers and encourage genocidal fantasies. The so-called"China flu" has prompted a dramatic increase not only in social media abuse, but also physical attacks on Asian Americans.
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