The pandemic years

Covid-19 exposed a deep divide in how people perceive pandemics, science and vaccination.

I am looking forward to flying the same route again this week—Bangkok-Singapore- Bangkok. It was my last journey to this part of the world before the pandemic shut everything down. I want to trace back my steps and recall empty Changi Airport and Don Mueang Airport, where a few of us passengers were standing in a queue to buy a box of masks for $50. The experiences and memories of the pandemic are fading; it appears to be in the distant past, like the 10 years of the Maoist insurgency, the 2015 earthquake and the blockade and the floods.