The reality of the matter is that we are at a true crossroads, and while this is an opportunity for a better world, a more humane economy in which we recognize our interdependence with the earth and so many people’s love and labor, there is also a real possibility that this is the beginning (or really the continuation) of a dystopic future that so many films and books have been written about.

For me, just as scary as the things mentioned above, is the notion that we have so internalized and naturalized a dog-eats-dog system that we don’t have the faith or imagination to consider that on the other side of this crisis (hopefully one in which we act sooner to lessen the overwhelm on our quite pathetically prepared health system due to decades of privatization, and deregulation), there might not be something different, even better.