2024-03-07 15:03:05
The physical and psychological effects of these different versions of Covid
– the short and the long
– are oddly parallel to its political consequences.
The disease turns out to be its own metaphor.
We are all suffering from political long Covid now.
The early drama is over.
A series of lingering misfortunes has replaced it.
As with long Covid, different countries are suffering in different ways, trapped in their own private miseries.
The shoc…