Though the Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, countries around the world are beginning to consider steps to ease their lockdown restrictions. With a return to some form of normality in sight, now may be the best time to look at the lessons we should have learned from this crisis.
Lessons Learned
Covid-19 has exposed our political leaders on grand stages, highlighting their aptitude, vulnerabilities, ineptitudes - not to mention idiocy - on many levels. In the UK at least, it has also exposed our societal weaknesses; our lack of good quality social care and a devaluing of the NHS which has lasted near to a decade. But lessons can be learned from this crisis, if we ask the right questions now.
Going forward, will we be able to anticipate health inequalities? And if so, will we consider how the marginalised, the elderly and young, or those in BAME communities might be most at risk? If so, will we adequately support those communities, through better social care, improved standards of living, and equal access to educational and economic opportunities?