7 Hard and Crucial Lessons of Covid-19

An invisible virus exposes critical blind spots in science and society. But will we learn?

Robert Roy Britt
Elemental
Published in
9 min readMar 31, 2021

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Plaguing the world for more than a year, the coronavirus has forced reckonings in everything from scientific understanding to heart-wrenching inequities in health care and the economy. Given the human tendency to ignore history, here, for the…

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Robert Roy Britt
Elemental

Editor of Aha! and Wise & Well on Medium + the Writer's Guide at writersguide.substack.com. Author of Make Sleep Your Superpower: amazon.com/dp/B0BJBYFQCB