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pandemic

Solidarity and resilience

RESILIENCE: Photographer Eduardo Moreno – who has allowed us to use several photos in this appendix – asks if it is possible to think anew. He calls for us to learn to build new maps of closeness, density and cohesion.

The consequences of pandemics for cities

CITIES: Life in the world's cities has always been characterized by epidemics and disease. Occasionally cities have been devastated by waves of infection, but mostly they have risen again and moved on. But what will be the consequences of the pandemic that originated in China in 2019? Can cities in our time handle such challenges again?

Societies that prioritize care

CARE: If you think reading 1800th-century British novels has little to do with the current political situation, you are wrong. Talia Schaffer shows how our thinking about care, help and health work already existed in the middle of the Victorian era.

United States of America?

Pandemic: How coordinated or in solidarity is Europe really?

An excommunication of the dead and death?

DEATH: Via the philosopher Jean Baudrillard, can we, with today's pandemic, expose the symbolic meaning of death, the one that is otherwise difficult to spot?

How do you "stay home" if you do not have a home?

Pandemic: Even during the pandemic, we maintain our status quo; the privileged remain privileged, and the others remain outside society.

"Immunological disability"

PANDEMIC: Perhaps the fear of bacteria and viruses in the future will increasingly lead to a disease preparedness characterized by totalitarian surveillance and control. A blind trust in vaccinations can lead to a phasing out of the human own immune system.

Unrestrained apartheid

Palestine voucher: Israel was quick to portray the Palestinians as carriers of the virus and as a health threat. Today, Gaza's crisis is both territorial, demographic, political – and biological.

When the US economy is cold, Haiti gets pneumonia

HAITIS CORONACRISE: Haiti today lacks approximately 5900 hospital seats for covid-19 sufferers. But the biggest obstacle is possibly to convince the people that the corona threat is real.

Pandemics and the free man

DISASTERS: Is there anything to learn from Albert Camus' plague, or is the book hyped up due to the corona pandemic?

On paved paths

COMMENT: Could our military and political leaders wake up and take hold of a fate far more serious than the pandemic that has hit the world?

2050: Earth is our wisest teacher

SCENARIO: Imagine, this is the year 2050, and we look back at the origin and evolution of the coronavirus pandemic over the past three decades: both the plagues of pandemics, flooded cities, burned forests, drought and other rising violent climate disasters. We offer the following scenario for such a prospect from the future.

When viruses go viral

INFO DEME: A study of the corona virus, conspiracy theories and fake news in the disinformation ecosystem.

In the time of the corona: Tourists and roommates

TOURIST OR REFUGEE? It is first and foremost the role of "tourist" that we experience the rigorous corona initiatives. For the roaming danger there are small changes. Can a crisis also revitalize solidarity?