A Paradox Approach To Societal Tensions During The Pandemic Crisis

COVID-19 isn’t going away soon [..] By now we know [. . .] that the novel Coronavirus will be with us for a rather long time. [. . .] In the interest of managing our expectations and governing ourselves accordingly, it might be helpful, for our pandemic state of mind, to envision this predicament—existentially, at least—as a soliton wave: a wave that just keeps rolling and rolling, carrying on under its own power for a great distance.