The question does not apply merely to the Covid-19 pandemic. It relates to its economic, social and political consequences. But already, almost everyone is experiencing what we might call the shock of the old. We have become used, in our era of rapid technological change, to startling innovations. But the coronavirus – even though it is called “novel” – brings with it a different order of disruption.

Source: The Irish Times March 21, 2020 06:00 UTC