Politeia

THE CORONA EFFECT  Remaining Apolitical Post-Lockdown   We nowadays await the Prime Minister's speech more than our amazon deliveries! Even though every one of us is sequestered in our homes, we are connected with the government more than ever before.  Social media, especially Twitter, is flooding with millennials expressing their discontent or appreciation of the government's actions to curb the spread of the virus. Somehow, even the most apolitical people among us are now scrolling down government notifications to find out whether their area is in the red or green zone, and the restrictions government will impose; and express their opinions on how the government is dealing with the pandemic. Now we can see millennials of the digital age discussing and criticising governance, something that was otherwise limited to very few people such as newspaper-readers, humanities students, and politicians. The sudden epiphany is because of the realisation of how government actions inf