Love in a Time of Coronavirus

Love in a Time of Coronavirus

In this week’s news are reports that Boris Johnson, the UK Prime Minister, has been hospitalised with Covid-19. Comments about this in my news feed are, as usual, rife with schadenfreude and hopes that he should die in one of his underfunded hospitals. There’s nothing surprising about this, but it saddens me. Don’t get me wrong – I have no respect for BoJo; I despise his policies, and his cuts to the National Health Service. His party and fellow ideologues are responsible for the UK health system being unprepared for this global pandemic. I sympathise with those who are outraged by these cuts, and fully understand the schadenfreude. But this is no time to be wishing harm to anyone. While speaking to a loved one in the US this morning, I was explaining that, unlike most contagious diseases, this time the hotspots are concentrated among the wealthy, when she replied “Good, maybe it will kill some of the millionaires and billionaires.” Again,...
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