Psychosocial Analysis of the Pandemic and Its Aftermath: Hoping for a Magical UndoingThis manifesto is motivated by the daunting psychosocial issues that were so strikingly revealed by the Covid 19 pandemic. Of particular interest is the collective denial of facts, which resulted in public health policy mistakes and fostered distrust. In hindsight, this could have been prevented. Boccara shows how the core psychosocial response to the pandemic observed in most countries turned out to be wishing for it to either magically go away, as