Love – et al – in the Time of the Corona
The headline is a reference to a 1985 novel written by Nobel prize winning author Gabriel García Márquez. Namely, Love in the Time of the Cholera.
China did not immediately inform the world that the Corona virus was out there.
We know that the current virus is not the flu, but the two do share certain symptoms, and we will remind you that not every case is a death sentence. Chances are, it started spreading before the city of Wuhan was quarantined, especially given the fact that the US has already seen 21,000 deaths from the ‘flu’ this season – much higher than normal – and million upon millions of instances where people recovered, despite the fact that they were bereft of the magical properties seemingly imbued by hording large amounts of toilet paper.