-- By Tom Phillips
With nowhere to go this Viral Spring, we've been staying home, watching old movies we missed the first time around. I skipped "Dr. Zhivago" in 1965 because I thought it was sentimental claptrap, and it is. But it's a cultural icon, a landmark for my generation. Sometime in the not too distant future Hollywood will make a blockbuster tear-jerker about love in the Pandemic of 2020.
No one alive can remember anything like it -- a political crisis, wrapped in an economic crisis, inside a global pandemic. It resembles 1918, with the Russian Revolution bundled in World War One and the flu pandemic. Paging Dr. Zhivago...
Then as now, politics comes first. The pandemic will be over in a year or so. The economy will follow the nation's health into recovery. But the political crisis will not be resolved in 2020.
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| Omar Sharif as Dr. Zhivago |
With nowhere to go this Viral Spring, we've been staying home, watching old movies we missed the first time around. I skipped "Dr. Zhivago" in 1965 because I thought it was sentimental claptrap, and it is. But it's a cultural icon, a landmark for my generation. Sometime in the not too distant future Hollywood will make a blockbuster tear-jerker about love in the Pandemic of 2020.
No one alive can remember anything like it -- a political crisis, wrapped in an economic crisis, inside a global pandemic. It resembles 1918, with the Russian Revolution bundled in World War One and the flu pandemic. Paging Dr. Zhivago...
Then as now, politics comes first. The pandemic will be over in a year or so. The economy will follow the nation's health into recovery. But the political crisis will not be resolved in 2020.
