How will Covid change the world?
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Stephen Mihm
, Bloomberg
If we’re lucky, historians in the twenty-fifth century will point to our encounter with Covid to explain the inexplicable demise of handshakes and the rise of elbow-bumping – or the fact it fueled the rise of a mysterious new religion known simply as Zoom
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When Covid-19 first arrived last year, everyone’s go-to historical parallel was the 1918 influenza pandemic. Precisely because it was so fleeting, it’s hard to find evidence that it caused a sweeping reorientation of everyday life. In its wake, most people simply forgot what happened. Other global pathogens stayed longer and had much bigger impacts on society.
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