Not a flash in the pandemic

A design column must take note of the many excellent, thoughtful responses by the design and creative professions

Speculating on post-coronavirus life is a raging contagion that infects the worker-from-home. Prior susceptibility is needed. It attacks the mind, causing fevered contemplation of the design of things in a post-corona world. It’s harmless: once you’ve read this, you can wash your hands and move on.

Caveat: how the pandemic will play out is unknown. A long fade with no clear end-of-crisis marker will likely tilt us to change, with new normals. Or will we see an elastic springing back to life-as-before, with supercompensation for hardships suffered, and a dusting off of any lessons that were being learned? History suggests