Long Term Impact of Covid 19 History Future Now
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The Covid 19 pandemic is a genuinely historical event. Future historians will analyse the period leading up to the outbreak, searching for clues about why it got so bad so quickly, will then investigate how societies managed the initial phase of the outbreak and finally will make conclusions about the long term impacts. When they do so they will have the benefit of hindsight and history will look neat, with few loose ends.
From our prospective, in the early phases of the outbreak, things look confused and even chaotic. Governments are struggling to find a way through the crisis whilst trying solve two seemingly contradictory problems; how to save individual lives and how to save their economies and societies.
This article provides a historical preview of how historians will look back at the longer term impacts of Covid 19. We look at 12 main forces, split into two parts, first what we refer to as “inevitable history” and second what we refer to as “broken history”.
The Covid 19 pandemic is a genuinely historical event. Future historians will analyse the period leading up to the outbreak, searching for clues about why it got so bad so quickly, will then investigate how societies managed the initial phase of the outbreak and finally will make conclusions about the long term impacts. When they do so they will have the benefit of hindsight and history will look neat, with few loose ends.
From our prospective, in the early phases of the outbreak, things look confused and even chaotic. Governments are struggling to find a way through the crisis whilst trying solve two seemingly contradictory problems; how to save individual lives and how to save their economies and societies.
This article provides a historical preview of how historians will look back at the longer term impacts of Covid 19. We look at 12 main forces, split into two parts, first what we refer to as “inevitable history” and second what we refer to as “broken history”.