Reality bites: To tackle a more substantive agenda for a truly new normal, congested slums that have become fast lanes for Covid-19 in Manila must be addressed. — Filepic/AFP
THE term “new normal” is being tossed around a lot these days, a kind of vague reference to what we might expect with life after Covid-19 lockdowns and movement control orders.
It turns out, though, that the term is not new at all; in fact, it is more than 100 years old and has been used in different contexts.
