COVID-19

Contrary to popular belief, the outbreak of the pandemic was predictable. East Asia was prepared better because it did not neglect the warnings of scientists. In the West, this was prevented by the gap between the world of power and the world of knowledge

A pandemic is not a war, but it can have effects deeper than many armed conflicts. It means a return to the primal politics. It undermines the “coddling civilisation” and the idea that people are now always safe from a sudden death

In the culture of fear, there is a single value we all buy into – the sacralization of safety, as something becoming an end in itself. We can see this in the unprecedented willingness of people to quarantine themselves