The comfort of strangers
We evolved to gather, to socialise, to commune — so why should some invisible terrorist take that away from us?
20 August 2020 - 05:00
The future? We’re already there.
The horror of it — of our future-now — is evident in the long queues for food, mounting protests, rising joblessness, restaurants permanently shuttered. And it is visible, too, in the big spaces — wiped, sprayed, sanitised, and regularly disinfected — between me and you...
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