In this blog I will address such questions as: ‘How to explain degrees of distress and violence in the Arctic, even though the pandemic was not very widespread there?’ ‘Could any long-term psychological consequences of the pandemic on Arctic communities have actually been overlooked?’ and if so, How do we address these issues without further damage of the Inuit people. I also touch upon the concept of “silent culture” (in Danish, tavshedskulturen), scrutinizing the prevailing contradictory views of the ‘Inuit culture’ as both the key protective factor and a major obstacle to heathier life in the Arctic. I argue that western-centric idea of silent culture and the essentializing culture-focused research are both problematic, nor do they shake the very fundamental assumption: that western ideas are the only rational ones and the only ideas which can make sense of the world, of reality, of social life and of human beings.