June 1 to June 7, 2020
What is the greatest teaching that the coronavirus pandemic is giving humankind?
What is the greatest teaching the COVID19 pandemic is offering humankind?
“The downgrading of competent, functional governance is one of the reasons the coronavirus crisis is already proving to be deeper and longer lasting here than in other countries, meting out more physical and economic pain. In that light, we either learn the lessons this crisis is trying to teach us, or we will be increasingly and regularly punished for ignoring them. Here are four of what I believe are the most important lessons:
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What is the greatest teaching the COVID19 pandemic is offering humankind?
“Space is an ally. Space allows the planet to begin to heal. Space allows people to break cycles of habit and inertia. Space allows people to reflect, contemplate, and create in a way they otherwise would not. Space allows people to clean the slate – to find renewed gratitude for that which they began to take for granted. Space allows us to find each other in a new way, to re-define our relationships – with ourselves and each other….”
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What is the greatest teaching the COVID19 pandemic is offering humankind?
“The COVID-19 pandemic and the wall-to-wall news coverage that has come with it has changed many of our lives seemingly overnight. In the UK, as in many countries, this news coverage includes a daily death toll. For the first time in many people’s lives they are having to face their own mortality and that of their loved ones. Facing up to this fact can be painful and disabling, but in my work as a professor of death studies I have found it offers an opportunity to rediscover truths about life – both individually and in society. Below are five positive things death can teach us about life:…”
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