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My answer is: no matter how difficult it is. And that, in turn, is the answer to why so many now don’t follow the restrictions in the same way they did last spring.
Yes, people are tired of washing their hands and keeping their distance and yearning for normality. But what consumes us the most in the long run is precisely what may seem so easy but so desperate: being unable or unable to do anything.
Even those who this spring thought that it was very nice not to have to go to work every day, are now tormented by restlessness, helplessness.
Nothing can be worse than living month after month in battle with an invisible enemy, unable to counterattack, act, try to influence the situation more than drinking handheld alcohol and canceling all the fun of life.
During the veneer of civilization, our instinct in acute danger is to flee and / or defend ourselves. The adrenaline is flowing, the pulse is racing, we will do our best to try to survive.
The situation now is different, prolonged in time and at a time when few of us have more patience than five minutes.
In the fight against coronavirus, healthcare professionals, researchers and experts are at the forefront. But most of us can do nothing but stay home. As the first fear of panic dissipates, in which we are not at risk, it breaks us, this of not being able to do anything.
During the more than eight months that have passed since the pandemic first broke out in Europe, when I was in Lombardy, I have lived and seen things that left deep traces, they marked me on the inside. Still, I am deeply grateful that in my work I have been able to act, travel to hotbeds, inform, do my job and my duty and contribute what I have been able to in a historically difficult moment, that I have been able to act.
I recently read “Operation Heavy Water”, about the sabotage struggle of Norway and Great Britain to prevent Nazi Germany from making the first atomic bomb. So close, so far, so urgent. The Norwegian men who were without hesitation prepared to die. The resistance. For that is how man is when he is tested; much braver and more self-sacrificing than we are tricked into believing in our selfish daily lives.
The destiny of women historically has been to stay home when men have fought and without wanting to romanticize the war, I can imagine worse things than to stay and wait.
The corona virus plagues our world with disease, death, new poverty, depression, and growing divisions and growing popular protests. When our enemy is unreachable, it is easy and logical for us to turn to each other.
Even terror is easier to bear, if nothing else we can go straight, challenge fear, show that we never intend to abandon our freedom, freedom of speech and our motley, wounded but invaluable democracy.
The longer the pandemic lasts, with people trapped in their homes, the more the desire for action, to intervene and influence will grow. In a crisis, we want homework, nothing dispels fear more than getting an assignment, the feeling of making a difference. Active, not passive like now, when we shrink instead of grow. Something to keep in mind for world leaders at a time of uncertainty and great trouble.
