Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak COVID-19 is a most disrespectful virus. It pays no attention to wealth, social status or infamy. Become infected you stand a statistically significant chance of becoming very ill and possibly dying.
Like cholera, which similarly was indifferent to the wealth or power of its human host, Coronavirus is compelling vast changes in the way society is organised. Where the ruling-class fear of contagion opened the way to a more rational and scientific focus on public health this virus is compelling a vast revision of commonly accepted political wisdom.
You have to wonder at the ideological […]
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