The Day The World Stopped
Amid travel bans and lockdowns, their approaches differ
Governments are still struggling to get ahead of the coronavirus
OF THE SUPPOSED five stages of grief, humanity’s response to the covid-19 pandemic has seemed stuck in the first three: denial (it will not happen to us), anger (it’s another country’s fault, or our government’s) and bargaining (if we make modest changes to our ways of life, it will leave us alone). Monday, March 16th may have been the day when the last vestiges of these coping strategies evaporated.
