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Angela McRobbie wrote for the  on her experience of Covid-19, and paid tribute to the low paid workers who are at the forefront of efforts to tackle the pandemic:

鈥楾he only reason I鈥檓 writing this is to re-iterate how, as a society, we now have to swivel 360 degrees to properly value those dedicated workers whose compassion has humbled me in ways I can hardly convey.鈥�

Yasmin Gunaratnam wrote a series of pieces for .  and  on approaches to mourning and palliative care in the face of Covid-19, and how those dying of the virus deserve to do so in diginity:

鈥極ver the past couple of weeks, medical and palliative care professionals have been urging us to talk more about end-of-life planning, rightly anticipating that covid-19 dying will be unlike anything we have experienced before鈥�. Britain is constructing an industrial machinery of critical care. Yet it is unclear whether we have a parallel infrastructure for palliative care.鈥�  

Will Davies wrote for the , , the  and  on what the world may look like on the other side of the crisis:

鈥楾he term 鈥渃risis鈥� derives from the Greek 鈥渒risis鈥�, meaning decision or judgment. From this, we also get terms such as critic (someone who judges) and critical condition (a medical state that could go either way). A crisis can conclude well or badly, but the point is that its outcome is fundamentally uncertain. To experience a crisis is to inhabit a world that is temporarily up for grabs鈥� Rather than view this as a crisis of capitalism, it might better be understood as the sort of world-making event that allows for new economic and intellectual beginnings.鈥�

Josh Cohen wrote for  on how covid-19 has exposed the reality of a world without work:

鈥榃ith the lockdown, it seems we've lost the routines that give substance to our lives. Need this mean losing ourselves? I'd like to believe that this period could help us discover new creative resources within ourselves鈥︹��

Erica Wagner interviewed Grayson Perry for  where they discussed the position of the arts in this current moment:

鈥樷�淚 think one of the interesting things about this whole situation is that it will make people think about the big questions. What is important? What, really, do they need? What, really, do they want to do? Life isn鈥檛 a rehearsal, and I think we will all have a kind of existential moment. I think that is good.鈥濃��