It is now two years since “two weeks” to flatten the curve. Lent and Lockdown had, in 2020, commenced at about the same time. The one ended on schedule and the other did not. Two years later, Lent finds a world still navigating Covid and now also Cold War. It is déjà vu at several levels. And, also, it is not.
I did not grow up under communism, but, like half the world, I grew up adjacent to it. The powers of…