{"id":2533,"date":"2020-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/covid-19-or-the-end-of-coherent-action-1c13b200d258\/"},"modified":"2020-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T00:00:00","slug":"covid-19-or-the-end-of-coherent-action-1c13b200d258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designswarm.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/covid-19-or-the-end-of-coherent-action-1c13b200d258\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 or The end of coherent\u00a0action?"},"content":{"rendered":"

COVID-19 or The end of coherent\u00a0action?<\/h3>\n
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Anecdote 1: My downstairs neighbours have had people over for dinner on Friday. In a pandemic.<\/p>\n

Anecdote 2: A South London yoga instructor<\/a> suggested we all \u2018clap for carers\u2019 and \u2018millions\u2019 of people did it at once<\/a> last Thursday. I only heard about it the next day because literally noone on my street did it even if I too live in South London.<\/p>\n

According to the Cambridge Dictionary, one of the definitions of coherent is \u2018having its parts related in an organized and reasonable way\u2019. Sitting here, at home, starting week three of my self isolation, I propose that the biggest effect of COVID-19 will be to highlight without a doubt that we (in the West\u00a0?) have lost all ability to be coherent.<\/p>\n

We are entirely atomised in our experience, including when that experience is collective. Furthermore, our limited ability to see each other in action has reduced any ability to agree on the necessary adjustments to our social norms. Our response has been slow, confused, individualised, atomised almost at a home level, combined with the added distraction of a media landscape competing for our attention, our money, our sanity.<\/p>\n

The incoherence started at a political level:<\/p>\n