15 May 2020

Variety is life, beware of the uniformity emerging from the pandemic

James Peron

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What people around the world are discovering, while millions of us shelter in our homes is during the coronavirus pandemic, even with all the modern technologies keeping us linked together when we must be apart, there is one thing that humans tend to thrive on – variety. Picture: iStock/ Brankospejs

Thousands of millions of us are sheltered at home during the global health crisis brought on by the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Benjamin Constant once said: “Variety is life. Uniformity is death.”

I suspect a lot of us agree with this sentiment, especially today.

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