Long Covid
5th March 2022
Joel Kotkin considers the long-term effects of the Pandemic Panic.
Personally, I think that the greatest achievement of the Panic was to underscore the separation between people who work with their fingers from people who work with their hands, a gap that will have serious effects on down the road. On the other hand, it demonstrated that people who work with their hands are the ones who make the rest of the machine chug along, so maybe they will be more likely to get the respect that they deserve. (No, I’m not holding my breath.)