- This is a book not about the pandemic, but rather about the world that is coming into being as a result of the pandemic and — more importantly — our responses to it.
- In the case of the novel coronavirus, the impact is being shaped by the reality that the world is deeply interconnected, that most countries were unprepared for the pandemic, and that in its wake, many of them — including the world’s richest nations –shut down their societies and economies in a manner unprecedented in human history.
- This book is about a “post-pandemic world” not because the coronavirus is behind us, but because we have crossed a crucial threshold.