Let's not forget that we are mortal

Everything has been said about this pandemic. A tragedy, a plague, a catastrophe, even worse... a «tragedy»! In the incessant flow of information, the catastrophist vocabulary becomes a catchphrase. Words lose their meaning, and thus their function: to make us think, to make us think right. But the question remains: what kind of crisis are we going through?

No, this pandemic is not a tragedy. Simply because it is not a play! Nothing is predetermined. There is no “coronavirus script” anywhere. This crisis is no less tragic, however. Indeed, it forcefully reminds us of our mortality. At the height of the crisis, in certain regions of northern Italy, there wasn’t enough time to bury the ever-increasing number of daily deaths; from Ecuador, we saw images of the streets of Guayaquil, the country’s second-largest city, littered with corpses;