In the bleak early days of Covid lockdown, Rebecca Solnit wrote a piece about how 'In the midst of fear and isolation, we are learning that profound, positive change is possible'. She asked how the pandemic might teach us hope:

'The outcome of disasters is not foreordained. It’s a conflict, one that takes place while things that were frozen, solid and locked up have become open and fluid – full of both the best and worst possibilities. We are both becalmed and in a state of profound change.'

'When a storm subsides, the air is washed clean of whatever particulate matter has been obscuring the view, and you can often see farther and more sharply than at any other time. When this storm clears, we may, as do people who have survived a serious illness or accident, see where we were and where we should go in a new light. We may feel free to pursue change in ways that seemed impossible while the ice of the status quo was locked up. We may have a profoundly different sense of ourselves, our communities, our systems of production and our future.'

The Guardian, 7 Apr 2020

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