The economic impact of Covid-19 is beginning to worsen. Given our gross inequalities, some have taken comfort in the argument that it will affect those “over there”.
They couldn’t be more wrong. The little bug is about to bind us together in ways not seen in decades. There is nothing like a unequivocal presidential statement to chill a country. At least five million people, many of them youth, will have lost their jobs by the time we declare victory over Covid-19.