Covid-19 and community development

This is a brief response to Rosie Meade's editorial in the Community Development Journal (55, 3), which identifies challenges to community development presented by the Covid-19 pandemic. As Rosie comments, while the implications of the pandemic are unpredictable, the crisis is infiltrating every aspect our lives. As I write this at the beginning of May, 2020, we are still living in a context of fear and panic. In this short piece I want to reflect further on some of the implications of the pandemic for community development, focussing on the Global North.