The premise of the New Map of Life:™ After the Pandemic project is that we have a fleeting window of time that affords us an unprecedented opportunity to examine our lives. Indeed, through ambivalent eyes we also recognize ways that life is better as we shelter in place. Just as sure, sheltering in place allows us to appreciate precious details of our lives that we have taken for granted: the appeal of workplaces, the comfort of human touch, dinner parties, travel, and paychecks. Tacit assumptions about health care systems become clear as we see how they function, fail to function, and have long underserved large parts of the population. The fragility of the global economy becomes glaringly apparent as critical supply chains faulter, unemployment surges, and markets vacillate. The suddenness and starkness of this transformation allows us to examine daily practices, social norms and institutions from perspectives rarely allowed. Seemingly overnight, we experienced profound changes in the ways that we work, socialize, learn, and engage with our neighborhoods and larger communities.įor a short time, before new routines and practices replace familiar old ones, we can see with greater clarity the positive and negative aspects of our former lives. The COVID-19 pandemic is bringing into focus a once invisible culture that guides us through life. It is said that culture is like the air we breathe.
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