“…COVID‐19, however, has thoroughly inverted the imagined and presumed geographies of suffering, crisis, and their constitution (MacGregor et al, 2022). As the virus spread from China to Italy, Spain, and then quickly to almost every country in the world, the spectre of crisis was no longer ‘somewhere else’, but ‘re‐territorialised’ in the Global North (Hanrieder & Galesne, 2021). As donor countries found themselves confronted with previously unimaginable states of exception at home, media images of overwhelmed healthcare workers in Europe and the USA with little or no access to Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), healthcare facilities on the verge of collapse, and, as a potent example, MSF volunteers helping in nursing homes in Geneva, reinforced the need for urgent help ‘at home’.…”