COVID-19 THE GOOD THE BAD & THE UGLY

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The Coronavirus pandemic has triggered a wide variety of emotions, both positive and negative, for people across the globe. It has also forced adjustment in our working lives, the way we behave as consumers and our attitudes towards politics, each other and societal norms. The mandated solitude can lead to periods of sustained reflection, loneliness, dark mental health problems and instability. Everybody’s case is different; some are alone at home, others spending the time with immediate family or cooped up with flatmates - there’s even stories of people stuck on the other side of the planet, unable to return from holiday. All of this begs the question of whether we should judge each other’s behaviour during the crisis. Is how we cope with this unprecedented situation indicative of us as a person? Do our true selves come to the fore, or can we suggest that this is such a strange time that anyone who comes through it in one piece has done enough?

This magazine explores individual accounts of dating, travelling, working, governmental failures and more. We must also recognise that, at the time of publishing, some 250,000 people are said to have died from the virus.

Most of us on the project are living in Berlin, where we can be grateful for a comparatively mild and well-handled lockdown. We also have contributors from the UK, Taiwan and Italy.