God, plagues and pestilence – what history can teach us about living through a pandemic

  • Written by: The Conversation
God, plagues and pestilence – what history can teach us about living through a pandemicAnthony Van Dyck's Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo/The Conversation (with apologies)

Most of us are living through a year that is unprecedented in our lifetimes. Too young to remember the Spanish flu, we’ve grown up in a world where we take Western wonder drugs and life-saving vaccines for granted. We have no...

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