Adanna Shallowe

Language has the power to shape the way we think – and the way we plan for the future. As we begin to imagine the post-pandemic world, we need to challenge our use of old metaphors to allow for new narratives and better futures to emerge. Words matter Recently my colleague Ruth Hannan wrote about why we shouldn’t use war metaphors to talk about healthcare during this present crisis.

Adanna Shallowe imagines the world ten years on from the Covid-19 global pandemic. How has the global community responded? Islamabad, Pakistan, 31 March 2030 “Fear drove people to run, to hide, to hoard, to protect their own, when the only solution is, and remains based in the community” - Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, Former President of Liberia It is the 10th anniversary of the Covid-19 global pandemic which had a devastating effect for many countries all over the world.

Amid all the Westminster intrigue, the UK is in the middle of a national emergency where too many of our fellow citizens are living in poverty. There is no doubt that inaction at this stage compromises the present and will jeopardise our social and economic future for generations. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights Here we are in the 2019, talking about poverty in the UK and it is used to explicitly describe the lived experience of too many of my fellow citizens.