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标题：Thinking about COVID-19
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作者：Leandro Rodriguez Medina
期刊名称：Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
电子版ISSN：2572-9861
出版年度：2020
卷号：3
期号：1
页码：259-260
DOI：10.1080/25729861.2020.1842583
语种：English
出版社：Taylor & Francis Group
摘要：2020 will be remembered as the year that we were sent to our homes, were told tokeep social distance, were forced to remote working (if we were lucky to keep ourjobs), and were required to re-arrange almost every single aspect of our private andpublic life, from sanitization of food delivered to our doorstep to online dating. AsLatour has argued, “the first lesson the coronavirus has taught us is also the mostastounding: we have actually proven that it is possible, in a few weeks, to put an econ-omic system on hold everywhere in the world” (Watts 2020). With similar astonishment,we have witnessed other phenomena that have called into question long-standing fra-meworks. We begin to question how we work; how we educate (and are educated);how we buy (and to whom); how we depend on others, assembled in complex net-works of caring; how dangerous isolation may be (but how e-accessible we seem tobe at all times); how we get information (good or fake); how our democratic but scien-tifically-illiterate leaders have made public policy decisions; how the invisible maybecome deadly at a planetary scale, and how unequal our societies are. Perhaps allof this is too much to process in less than a year.