-- By Tom Phillips
With nowhere to go until the Pandemic is over, we've been watching old movies we failed to see the first time around. I skipped "Dr. Zhivago" in 1965 because it sounded like sentimental claptrap, and it is. But it was a cultural icon, a landmark for my generation. Sometime in the not too distant future Hollywood will make a sentimental movie about love during 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 |
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.
