There could be a silver lining, historians, economists and writers say: We as a nation can choose to seize this moment to create an even greater society better poised to protect its citizens from future crises.
Since then, this global crisis has mushroomed into a national defining moment with as yet untallied cultural and. No one questions whether we will be talking about this for generations. If there is debate, it is over the proper historical comparison.
That we are in for difficult months and perhaps years ahead seems commonly accepted, as virus deaths mount, hospitals are overwhelmed and a decimated service-based economy spursBut if there is cause for optimism in these bleak times, historians, economists and writers say, it is born out of the fact that we as a nation can choose to seize this moment to create an even greater society better poised to protect its citizens from future crises.
Margulies notes that in contrast to WWII, when Japanese-Americans were rounded up and interned, and the Red Scare, when those suspected of Communist leanings were blacklisted, this debacle has “governors from New York to California saying the same thing, 'stay home,' and they mean everyone, not one group.”At the moment, most cultural observers note that the sharp political divide that existed before the virus arrived still persists.
“Clearly, the cost of the virus in lives and resources will pale in comparison to the way life may change for us all,” he says. “Just like terrorism before it, this pandemic may present real challenges to civil liberties that we’ll have to grapple with.” “It’s a noble and frightening future we’re facing,” he says. “But it may also give us a newfound sense of national solidarity.”
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