{"id":1127,"date":"2020-05-02T19:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T18:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/unesco\/?p=1127"},"modified":"2020-05-02T19:41:32","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T18:41:32","slug":"the-need-to-remember-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogg.lnu.se\/unesco\/?p=1127","title":{"rendered":"The need to remember COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Neuroscientist and futurist Anders Sandberg has published an interesting argument about <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.practicalethics.ox.ac.uk\/2020\/03\/pandemic-ethics-never-again-will-we-make-covid-19-a-warning-shot-or-a-dud\/\">our moral duty to remember the lesson of COVID-19<\/a>\u00a0for the benefit of future generations:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>The Covid-19 pandemic &#8230; is a wake-up call. &#8230; [H]istorically we have adapted to trauma rather well. Maybe too well \u2013 we have a moral reason to ensure that we do not forget the harsh lessons we are learning now.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p>What kind of lessons do we need to learn? The basic ones are what strategies work and do not work, whether in epidemiological strategy, social life or how to handle the experience personally.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>According to Sandberg, part of the solution may be the construction of monumental memorials:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>In the end, we better build some hard-to-ignore monuments to the people who died or performed heroically, to shore up our collective memory. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelancet.com\/journals\/lancet\/article\/PIIS0140-6736(20)30382-2\/fulltext\">Li Wenliang<\/a> may be a good symbolic martyr to remember (especially the key lesson about openness being necessary for a rapid response).<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>It is to a large degree a real moral choice whether Covid-19 becomes a warning shot that teaches us useful things for the time when <a href=\"https:\/\/80000hours.org\/problem-profiles\/global-catastrophic-biological-risks\/\">a truly dangerous pathogen emerges (or is made)<\/a> or just a massive distraction that is soon conveniently forgotten\u2026 until it is too late. Given the stakes, it matters to remember well.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>But what does it matter &#8220;to remember well&#8221;, I would ask? No detailed message remains understandable and meaningful across generations, unless it is regularly being updated and translated into a new context.<\/p>\r\n<p>The best message to transmit to the future may therefore be a meta-message:<\/p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>Keep the experts on essential issues!<\/li>\r\n<li>Listen to them!<\/li>\r\n<li>Vote for politicians who put human wellbeing first!\u00a0<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n<p>I wonder who may be the right martyr to be memorialised for that message to be carried forward&#8230;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Neuroscientist and futurist Anders Sandberg has published an interesting argument about our moral duty to remember the lesson of COVID-19\u00a0for the benefit of future generations: The Covid-19 pandemic &#8230; is a wake-up call. &#8230; [H]istorically we have adapted to trauma rather well. 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