by Minka Woermann | Jul 12, 2020 | Covid-19 reflections
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly contracted and enlarged our frontiers of being. On the one hand, our days have been distilled down to the minutiae of living. It often seems as if life has been reduced to a series of banal tasks – eating, brushing teeth,...
by Anton van Niekerk | Jul 11, 2020 | Covid-19 reflections
It is ever more universally claimed that the global spread of the potentially lethal Covid 19 virus represents the greatest health and economic disaster that we have seen since the Spanish flu of 1918-19 and the First and Second World Wars. It also is a poignant...
by JP Smit | Jul 10, 2020 | Covid-19 reflections
Our department has, on the whole, coped remarkably well with the Covid situation. A number of students have told us that our teaching and general level of organisation have been among the best in the Faculty. One would suppose that there is a strong self-selection...
by Vasti Roodt | Jul 9, 2020 | Covid-19 reflections
So much of everyday life depends on trust: trust that tomorrow will arrive, that nothing catastrophic will happen when it does, that our plans will work out and life will go on. The COVID pandemic has upended this easy reliance on the future. Faced with so much...
by Andrea Palk | Jul 8, 2020 | Covid-19 reflections
Having a keen interest in ethical themes in global mental health and psychiatry, I have been particularly concerned about the long-term impact of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on the mental health of front-line health care workers (HCWs). This...
by Phila Msimang | Jul 7, 2020 | Covid-19 reflections
Many of the differential effects of the global catastrophes we face today can be traced to pre-existing socio-political and economic realities. We have seen this in the last decade with the ever more serious disasters of the climate crises. Now we see this playing out...
