Pandemics have always been with us, slapping down human hubris, reminding us of our precarious, latecomer status on the planet and naive belief in our own wisdom and ingenuity.
31 December 2020, The Tablet
When it comes to a virus like Covid, it is the Middle Ages, and before
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