Commentary
To Mattias Desmet, the pandemic that crashed into 2020 was more of a state of mind than a material reality. Yes, there was a new contagious disease. Yes, we needed to take it seriously. Yes, it warranted some collective action. But the way people were behaving? That was the real virus. “From May 2020 onwards, I had the feeling that the core was not the biological problem,” he has said. “It was a psychological problem.”
