THE GUARDIAN: We can’t go back to the status quo

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I have lost count of the people I’ve heard say there must be no return to business as usual after the coronavirus crisis. Between them, Polly Toynbee (I’ve lived through plenty of social shocks – this time we must learn the lessons, 30 March) and Peter C Baker (‘We can’t go back to normal’: how will coronavirus change the world?, 31 March) review the gamut of optimistic and pessimistic scenarios for change. Baker concludes: “What happens next might depend on the optimists’ ability to transport such moments of solidarity into the broader political sphere.” Quite!