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As José Saramago describes in his Essay on Blindness, loss of vision is characteristic of any pandemic: we do not see the disease until it arrives, and when it does, we do not understand what is happening around us. Saramago does not believe that diseases transform us; in his opinion, they help us capture the true face of our societies. If so, it is essential that we understand what happened while we were locked in our house. In this lucid text, Ivan Krastev exposes the five paradoxes that COVID-19 has brought to light regarding globalization, international cooperation, authoritarianism, social cohesion and the European project. Winner in 2020 of the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Jean Améry Prize, the gaze of one of the best political analysts of the moment is essential to begin to understand the consequences of the pandemic that will set the course of the world in the coming years.