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The End of Progress?

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Will Self reflects on how the pandemic could affect our perception of human progress.

Will Self reflects on how pinning our hopes on finding a vaccine for the pandemic could affect our wider faith in the idea of progress.

The writer, Katherine Mansfield, was diagnosed with TB in 1917.  She travelled across Europe - trying all sorts of therapies - until her death.  But it would be another twenty years before a cure was actually discovered.  
Will Self questions whether - if it takes years to find an effective vaccine or treatment for COVID 19 - we will still manage to maintain our faith in human progress.   

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