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Is there anything positive coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic? by Jacob Thomas | May 27, 2021
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Social critics typically have the role of highlighting negative or problematic aspects of society, particularly when everything appears to be going well; however, during difficult, uncertain and chaotic periods of history, they can perform a potentially equally important role of pointing out positive changes that can emerge from a catastrophe. Is there anything positive coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic?
This paper highlights ten ways COVID-19 simultaneously exposes fundamental problems in societies and necessitates that we address them if we are all not to collectively suffer more now and later when another pandemic arrives. I recognize that some of these examples may seem to be mentioned too soon, the changes that have happened are possibly temporary, and this is by no means a complete list