Don’t Join the COVID-19 Culture Wars

Andrew Hassanali
2 min readApr 24, 2020
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Pandemics transcend normal life.

They demand that societies drop many of their concerns — activism, politics, and conflict — in order to prevent a potentially deadly contagion from affecting the lives of the most vulnerable. Unfortunately, many of those demands are only met in an ideal world. Instead, we are currently in a tailspin towards a culture war over COVID-19, engaging in sectarian games that…

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Andrew Hassanali

Writer on politics and culture—Editorial Intern at Parlia—University of Edinburgh Postgraduate International Relations