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cord-344866-vhuw4gwn	Demertzis, Nicolas	Covid-19 as cultural trauma	2020-09-10		.txt	text/plain	10297	469	51	Explaining this, Smelser writes: 'with respect to the dimension of time alone, the traumatic process was truncated… The moment of the attacks to the recognition that they constituted a national trauma was a matter of short days, if not hours…The scope of the trauma and the identity of the victims were established immediately… there was an instant consensus that it was a trauma for everybody, for the nation… there was no significant divergence in the reactions of government and community leaders, the media, and the public in assigning meaning to the events as a national tragedy and outrage…there was little evidence of social division around the trauma' (Smelser 2004, p. However, despite initial high levels of anxiety the pandemic did not evolve into cultural trauma in either, even with an exceptionally high death rate in Sweden and the great difference in trust in authority that distinguishes the two countries.	./cache/cord-344866-vhuw4gwn.txt	./txt/cord-344866-vhuw4gwn.txt