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The line I think should most definitely be retired in the current scenario.
“This crisis is an opportunity”.
I’ve realized that contrary to ringtones of hope, a crisis is in fact always a crisis. Especially a pandemic.
“This crisis is an opportunity”.
I’ve realized that contrary to ringtones of hope, a crisis is in fact always a crisis. Especially a pandemic.
Opportunity for “radical simplification” https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-04-25/coronavirus-pandemic-is-an-opportunity-for-radical-simplification
Apparently it’s really a great time for human rights defenders https://www.ishr.ch/news/global-pandemic-provides-opportunity-and-imperative-global-human-rights-change
Both human rights and big tobacco find it a great time https://www.google.com/amp/s/theconversation.com/amp/coronavirus-big-tobacco-sees-an-opportunity-in-the-pandemic-138188
We can also decolonize development wow. https://wearerestless.org/2020/06/11/the-pandemic-is-an-opportunity-to-decolonise-development/
Pope thinks it’s an opp too https://www.google.com/amp/s/cruxnow.com/vatican/2020/06/pope-pandemic-is-an-opportunity-for-mission-service-to-others/amp/
Damn we can also test “ingrained HE theories” https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pandemic-major-opportunity-test-ingrained-he-theories
More business related opportunities https://www.personneltoday.com/hr/pandemic-is-a-business-transformation-opportunity-global-hr-conference-hears/
I’m we can also figure out how to be better citizens https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.thewire.in/article/education/the-pandemic-as-an-opportunity-to-educate-on-what-it-means-to-be-a-citizen/amp
It can be an opportunity to reset healthcare in India https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.firstpost.com/tech/science/reset-and-reboot-after-covid-19-the-pandemic-is-indias-opportunity-to-set-things-right-for-its-healthcare-system-8388421.html/amp
For India it’s more yay then nay https://www.google.com/amp/s/m.economictimes.com/markets/stocks/news/coronavirus-pandemic-a-bigger-opportunity-than-a-threat-for-india/amp_articleshow/74843364.cms
Should place these idiots in here but ok they think it’s going to be a great opportunity not a crisis. Includes a line which says “we have to move on” (from the deaths) https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.opindia.com/2020/04/opportunities-indian-economy-coronavirus-pandemic-china-world-manufacturing-business-investment/amp/
Bigger opportunity than 1991 for India. And yes INDIA has taken more loans than it did back then. https://www.google.com/amp/s/indiaincgroup.com/covid-19-pandemic-offers-a-bigger-opportunity-for-india-than-the-1991-reforms/amp/
This one too https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/new-atlanticist/can-india-make-an-opportunity-out-of-crisis/
Good for research even https://science.sciencemag.org/content/368/6491/594.full
“Unfortunate opportunity” https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.scroll.in/article/958271/the-coronavirus-pandemic-is-an-unfortunate-opportunity-for-indias-judicial-system-to-modernise
Modi also got the “pandemic is opportunity“ memo https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.indiatvnews.com/amp/jobs/news-pm-modi-mannkibaat-says-create-jobs-in-villages-east-india-turn-pandemic-into-opportunity-622124
Why am I pointing this out? Because stuff like this encourages us to dodge reality. It’s also a PR job to give a sense of normalcy to a very bad global situation and herald that a return to normal is desired and will happen. When we know that’s going to take longer than we know.
The truth is thousands have lost their jobs, have been saddled with medical bills they can’t afford or worse have lost their loved ones or are close to losing their lives.
Its not a “sunny side up” scenario.
Its not a “sunny side up” scenario.
When people argue that a horrible event is an opportunity they inadvertently end up arguing that if one is miserable it’s because they’re not seeing what opportunities are being created.
It’s also weird, thanatologically speaking, that death itself has become normalized and grief is something routine and distant, something to “move on from”.
Also why do we have to find opportunities in a horrible pandemic? I mean why can’t higher education be reimagined when things are normal? Or why can’t businesses fix internal processes because they want to. Why wait for a pandemic?
Or for instance why couldn’t the Indian govt create more jobs in villages when there was no pandemic? Why wait for a pandemic to take job creation measures?
