Covid-19 has thrown into relief so many key issues: the essential frailty of advanced capitalism, the potential for the state to control the life and death of citizens, the nature of human solidarity and the way in which we desecrate the planet. A virus has done the work ‘when all the sway of earth, shakes like a thing unfirm’. Now is the time for taking stock. If not now, when?

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如果不是现在，那是什么时候？

Covid-19消除了许多关键问题：先进资本主义的根本脆弱性，国家控制公民生死的潜力，人类团结的性质以及我们亵渎地球的方式。病毒已经完成了“当大地摇摆时，像不确定的事物一样摇动”的工作。现在是盘点时间。如果不是现在，那是什么时候？