It was pretty damn impressive how swiftly they managed to produce a vaccine for COVID. Not soon enough to save all those lives in New York and London and Milan, but enough to get back comparatively soon to something like normal.
Feels a bit comical now to recall how fondly some of us imagined in the midst of that surreal suspended lockdown time that this could change everything. Building back better! Rethinking the world in better more collaborative cooperative ways! Oh boy.
Instead: flintier and more polarised; fractious and brittle. We seem to have learned less than nothing.
