COVID-19 and the Logic of Downturn, Part 1, with Joerg Rieger
Joerg Rieger joins the team at Faith and Reason to talk about COVID-19 and the Logic of Downturn.
In this engaging conversation, Joerg discusses why oppressed people have been hit hardest with COVID-19 and why people of faith and theologians should care. Joerg’s theory of the logic of downturn in regard to the broken system in the United States asks, “What if we thought about God from this perspective from the bottom up, or the perspective of an essential worker? How are we going to get out of this?”
Check out Joerg’s podcast page or listen to the newest edition to the Faith and Reason podcast here.
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The Ugly Truth of a Pandemic and the Logic of Downturn
The traumas associated with global pandemics may be once-in-a-lifetime events for some, but they have the potential of nudging all of us to see the world in new ways and to change it. While no one knows for sure how bad things will get with COVID-19, let’s acknowledge for the moment that they are not great: In early April of 2020, tens of thousands have died around the globe due to the novel coronavirus, the United States are headed towards an unemployment rate of more than 30 percent according to the Fed, and the stock market is down about a third of its value. Already on March 13, President Trump was forced to declare a national emergency, changing course from his earlier attempts to downplay the situation.
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