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How Covid changed the way we think

news.movim.eu / TheGuardian • 17 March 2025

The physical impact alone has been seismic, but has the pandemic also altered how we see ourselves and the world?

In the strange, scary days of early 2020, with the world suddenly upended by the outbreak of a terrifying new virus, there were times when it seemed certain every aspect of society would be hugely altered by the experience.

Five years on, the physical impact has been profound. More than 220,000 people have died in the UK , out of 7 million worldwide . Many more have been left with a devastating post-viral illness .