Going Out Like a Lamb ...
Chris Downes
31 March 2020
News headlines in early 2020 detailed natural disasters, impending famine (caused by locust plagues in dozens of countries) and pestilence (the novel coronavirus and an outbreak of the bubonic plague). Each week left one wondering what was coming next. Even highly rational people began to wonder whether the 'Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' were about to show up.
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