THEY call it ennui.
Some recent polls suggest that about a quarter of the population now lives in a Fomo state, yearning to throw off virus-related restrictions, and rush ahead to some semblance of normal business and social life. Singapore, after all, has gone from being poster boy to the one who tripped up in its fight against Covid-19, and back and forth again, as infection numbers fluctuated. It is not alone. Around the world, people have found themselves hustled on to similarly enervating roller-coaster rides.
The virus is indifferent to status, rank or position, striking regardless of race, language or religion. It does not care if you are battle ready or exhausted, rich or poor, or whether we carry a red, blue or maroon passport. It takes no note of festivals or cultural traditions, or just how badly you or the kids might need a holiday.Wily Covid-19 has had a few tricks up its sleeves. It can spread, adapt, mutate.
Against this grim reality, we know too that we have to get on with the business of life. Both fragile and fleeting, life is too precious to be put on hold interminably. With each passing day, you either use it or lose it. For some insight, we might turn not only to the experiences of people grappling with similar challenges worldwide, but also great books on pandemics past, looking back to the future, so to speak. Such accounts, both fact and fiction, abound. From Daniel Defoe'sThe DecameronThe Plague,in May last year, novelist Marcel Theroux noted:"The primary lesson of plague literature, from Thucydides onwards, is how predictably humans respond to such crises.
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