Shall I tell you the worst thing? I suspect that people are going to look back, years from now, with nostalgia. We are actually going to miss, or at least imagine that we miss, the horrors we are now going through.

It will be like the London Blitz — the misery forgotten, the “spirit” recalled and exalted. When we talk about the events of 2020, we won’t be thinking about the poverty, the squalor, the petty restrictions. We will remember, instead, the mood of national solidarity and purpose.

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