During the Pandemic I talked frequently to friends, family and pretty much anyone that would listen about how it felt like the “Western Nations” were the walls of Rome and we, comfortably located in the holy city, were watching the barbarians – “the infected” – approach the walls. It was perhaps premature to consider this an existential threat to our “empire” – way of life, but suffice to say the Pandemic, the response to the Pandemic by society and, now the aftermath of the Pandemic, has had a lasting impact on our privileged society.
I say privileged society only in terms of the comfort and lack of a daily struggle – for most – to find food, shelter, and comfort. Many folks, even those in the countries of such affluence, are faced with those day-to-day struggles, and that is a tragedy. Whatever your direct impact or experience with the Pandemic was – collectively we have all changed, some for the better and some, unfortunately victims of ignorance, prejudice, poverty, and immune systems, for the worse.
I don’t view the impact of the Pandemic through a lens of affluence or casual acquaintance. It was made mandatory for me to work from home; I was not moving about and travelling for work or leisure; I obeyed the laws; I was fearful and perhaps even traumatised by the event – like many. I’m lucky that by fortune, circumstance, or genetics I did not succumb to the disease. To date five million people have. What I did observe was an aftershock with striking relationships to my chosen profession of information security and the society that we enjoy or endure – depending on your perspective and experience.
We built the largest most complex machine in the history of the world – the internet. But we have no actual governance, rules o ..
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