A Royal Reality Check
The heir to the British throne getting the coronavirus will make this outbreak seem real to many people.
“A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa,” Mark Zuckerberg once told his colleagues at Facebook. People were outraged, of course. People are always outraged when someone points out one of the indefensible things we nonetheless all believe.
As China was ravaged by the coronavirus at the start of the year, life carried on as normal for many in the West. The complacency largely continued even as Italy was overwhelmed by the virus. And and .
