âA significant number of people have decided that there will be no âpost-Covidâ and that thinking we will ever return to a life that looks like the one we left is laughable.â Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP âA significant number of people have decided that there will be no âpost-Covidâ and that thinking we will ever return to a life that looks like the one we left is laughable.â Photograph: Rick Bowmer/AP Mon 8 Feb 2021 04.00 EST Last modified on Sun 14 Feb 2021 11.08 EST I think itâs fair to say that a lot of people are irritable at the moment. Itâs the dead of winter, weâre in an indefinite national lockdown and it is possible to have gestated and birthed a whole human child since the last time anyone was legally allowed to go to a party. But even allowing for this, I have found myself surprisingly irritated by something lately, a thing that has become more popular in the present period of the pandemic: doom-mongering.