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September 10, 2025Open Access

Adrift, in search of normality

CHChristopher HobsonAustralian National University

Key Points

The COVID-19 pandemic has altered our sense of time, creating a malleable perception.
Most historians may mark the onset of COVID-19 in early 2020, yet the notion of time has become obscure.
The lack of clear start or end dates for pandemics complicates our understanding of their impact.
Future interpretations of this period may vary significantly, influenced by how time is perceived.

Abstract

Pandemics do not have clear start or end dates, we must leave it to future historians to provide a degree of order to our contemporary mess. Most will probably date the COVID-19 pandemic as commencing early in 2020, meaning we are about at the two year mark, whatever that means at this point. During this odd and uneven period one particularly unsettling feature has been how malleable time has felt.

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Christopher Hobson (Thu,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c1e30154b1d3bfb6100384 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.59350/kn8gj-cyd44

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