Thinking Aloud

Living with Covid-19: Coming to grips with our anger and angst

Around the world, and through the ages, people have reacted in similar ways to a pandemic. So why be so hard on ourselves?

For all the world's efforts to defeat it, Covid-19 is here to stay. PHOTO: ST FILE

They call it ennui.

You know, that lingering mix of feelings of listlessness and tedium, of being adrift, bereft of neither a sense of anticipation, nor agency to shake the malaise off.

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