ABSTRACT. This article’s main takeaway is the importance of the question: Why did it take me so much time to realize that the pandemic is real? Cutting across the personal and the collective, the uncanny and the ordinary, the visceral and the rational, this article shows that our philosophies’ and our sciences’ lack of sensitivity to instinct and emotion is a problem. pp. 23–28

Keywords: COVID-19; isolation; viral modernity; academic journal; affect

doi:10.22381/KC8220204