Feeling

Linguistics

Philosophy

Performance art

Social psychology

Seriousness

Happening

Computer science

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)

Psychology

Authoritarianism

Environmental ethics

Politics

Political science

Value (mathematics)

Democracy

Infectious disease (medical specialty)

Criminology

Sociology

Medicine

Pandemic

Disease

Space (punctuation)

Art history

Machine learning

Pathology

History

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

This article examines the global response to the Covid-19 pandemic. It argues that we urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what is happening today. How did we end up in a space of thinking, acting, and feeling that has normalized extremes and is based on the assumption that biological life is an absolute value separate from politics? The author suggests that today's fear is fueled by mathematical disease modeling, neoliberal health policies, nervous media reporting, and authoritarian longings.

What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop