Plagues

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  4/18/2023
  

  Jonathan Kennedy Tells the World's History through Eight Plagues

  A new book asks whether microbes have been bending the narrative arc of history all along. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  10/12/2021
  

  History of Past Pandemics Shows COVID Will Be an Era, not an Event

  Medical and Science Historians Allan Brandt, Jeremy Greene, Frank Snowden and Jonathan Moreno argue that we are unlikely to experience any clear end of the COVID pandemic. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/12/2020
  

  Plagues Follow Bad Leadership in Ancient Greek Tales

  by Joel Christensen

  Zeus observes in Homer’s “Odyssey,” as I’ve translated it, “Humans are always blaming the gods for their suffering / but they experience pain beyond their fate because of their own recklessness.”