Today is the first day of the easing of the lockdown or, rather, the end of the lockdown since many of our individual and social freedoms will still be limited or prohibited.
After this unusual period and as phase 2 begins, some reflection is needed…
With Covid-19, we experienced an exogenous and sudden shock, something invisible and unknown.
Not only that, as the lockdown continued, the troubling question arose of whether it was better to die from the virus or from poverty, given the devastating effect on the economy.
At the time of easing the lockdown, we have the opportunity to reflect on what the virus will leave behind, beyond a dark tragedy that has caused tens of thousands of bereavements…
Already now, we can draw three useful lessons: the interconnectedness of issues in global society, the role of cooperation at local, national, and international levels; the centrality of the digital architecture of the modern economy.
It has been revealed how the solution to phases 2 and 3 will involve the aggregation of economic-financial and psychological-social skills with the medical-health skills of phase 1.
Moreover, global society is a complex society, and complex issues are not solved with the verticality of individual disciplines but with the interdisciplinary horizontality of their interweaving.
The challenge is demanding, but if we do not take it up now, then when?
