Global crisis of corona virus
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Answer:
Coronavirus crisis has transformed our view of what’s important
Explanation:
There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”
So said Vladimir Ilyich Lenin of the ferment of revolution, but he could just as easily have been talking about the 100 days that have passed since the moment coronavirus officially became a global phenomenon, the day China reported the new contagion to the World Health Organization.
The world has been transformed in that time, perhaps nowhere more so than Britain.
A hundred days ago, on 31 December, the UK prime minister delivered a video message full of hope and promise.
The coming year would, he said, be a “fantastic” one, the start of “an exhilarating decade of growth, prosperity and opportunity”. In 2020, he enthused, Britain would brim with “confidence”.
The early weeks suggested the PM might be right on one count at least. After three and a half years of rancour over Brexit, some of the poison began to drain out of the issue. Of course, it wasn’t “done”, as Johnson promised it would be, but it seemed as if we might dwell on lesser worries.
We saw in 2020 debating Megxit, a country with no greater angst on its mind than whether the Sussexes should carry on royalling.
On 31 January, the UK formally left the European Union. This new coronavirus was low down on the bulletins, safely tagged as foreign news.