This article is published in issue 5 of Vanity Fair on newsstands until February 3, 2021
On January 30, 2020, more or less a year ago, the WHO declared the coronavirus “a global health emergency”, while in Italy two Chinese tourists, hospitalized in isolation at the Spallanzani hospital in Rome, were registered as the first two cases of Covid-19 patients ascertained in Italy. From that day on, it doesn’t seem like 12 months have passed, but a whole decade. And the spirit of struggle and hope that have accompanied us so far today seem to give way to a strange limbo, a colorless place where uncertainty is even stronger than fear.
The vaccines have arrived, it is true, but the road still to go not only seems long, sometimes it seems that it never ends. A few days ago, the weekly The Economist published an article that caused a lot of discussion: his thesis was that we must be very optimistic about the next decade because what awaits us in the future, around the corner of the pandemic, is a rebirth similar to the roaring twenties of the last century.
Now, between the extreme confidence of the English periodical and the sense of defeat that pervades us, we have chosen this week to offer you the stories of some characters, especially women, who have learned to live outside the box as spirits free from conventions, superstructures, habits and small and large difficulties. From Kamala Harris (who exclusively reveals an excerpt from her autobiography) to Charlize Theron, passing through our cover star Laura Chiatti: in the next pages you will find the strength of those who have been able to look beyond the present by unhinging everything that others gave for established, for normal, for insurmountable.
Here, on the contrary: it can be changed, it can be overcome, it can be surpassed. I think we all need these visions at a time when the temptation to give in to lightheadedness is very, very high.
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