What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop. (21st July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Caduff, Carlo
• Is Part Of: Medical anthropology quarterly. Volume 34:Number 4(2020)
• Page Start: 467
• Page End: 487
• Publication Date: 2020-07-21
• Subjects: pandemics -- preparedness -- power -- fear; Medical anthropology -- Periodicals; Anthropology -- Periodicals; Antropología médica -- Publicaciones periódicas; Anthropologie médicale -- Périodiques; Médecine sociale -- Périodiques; Ethnomédecine -- Périodiques; Medische antropologie; Anthropologie médicale; Computer network resources; Périodique électronique (Descripteur de forme); Ressource Internet (Descripteur de forme); 306.461
• DOI: 10.1111/maq.12599
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0745-5194

Abstract

Abstract: This article examines the global response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. It argues that we urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what is happening today. How did we end up in a space of thinking, acting, and feeling that has normalized extremes and is based on the assumption that biological life is an absolute value separate from politics? The author suggests that today's fear is fueled by mathematical disease modeling, neoliberal health policies, nervous media reporting, and authoritarian longings.