In this brilliant, thought-provoking essay, Ivan Krastev explores the pandemic's immediate consequences and conceives of its long-term legacy. What will change for the young and the old? Will things be different for the communities most harmed and for those who escaped the worst? Where are we now with the US and China, with the UK and Europe? And how do we think our way through the unthinkable? One of our most scintillating public intellectuals explores the political paradoxes of the pandemic.