Recently the world commemorated VE day, celebrating the vast global effort to defeat fascism, an inhuman ideology which sacrificed life on the altar of materialism. The Queen gave a speech to her quarantined subjects: declaring that ‘our streets are not empty; they are filled with the love and the care that we have for each other’. The lockdown is a terrible inconvenience for everyone, a profound psychological struggle for some, and an economic danger to the livelihoods of many. But we shouldn’t and mustn’t forget what it represents: despite everything, despite our GDP measured politics, we have globally made the decision to value not just human life over economics, but the lives of the infirm, disabled and elderly over the material interests of the able-bodied.
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