Coronavirus crisis has transformed our view of what’s important | Jonathan Freedland

After 100 days of rapid change we now see we can do without celebrities but not shelf-stackers

“There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.”

So said Vladimir Ilyich Lenin of the ferment of revolution, but he could just as easily have been talking about the 100 days that have passed since the moment coronavirus officially became a global phenomenon, the day China reported the new contagion to the World Health Organization.

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