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WHEN WE CELEBRATE THE BEST, IS IT FOR THE BEST?

Language met its limitations with Covid-19; the word ‘unprecedented’ was used initially in 2020 by politicians without cynicism but, by the end of the year, the word was used by most with a sense of fatigue and irony: ‘unprecedented’. Making sense of last year was made more challenging because words did not seem up to the task. The political and virus outcomes of last year have picked up new intensities in 2021 and, if last year was unprecedented, how, then, to make sense of this year? And when and how will we do it? We in

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