Dr. Menno Aden: Post COVID-19: What is holding our society together
by Dr. Menno Aden, Essen /Ruhr
Point of Departure
Besides the medical effects of the Covid 19 pandemic, which are not to be discussed here, the pandemic has the social and political effect of isolating people from each other and, the longer the epidemic lasts, making them strangers to each other. In the economy, supply chains are interrupted because the people involved are not interacting personally, which, despite digital communication channels, is still the basis of economic transactions based on trust. In social life, there is no longer an exchange of economic goods and thoughts, and at the extreme end, the human being dies separated from his closest confidant in an isolated room and he is buried, again outside any community.