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    Will the pandemic imitate the Plague?

    Jan 12, 2022 2 minutes
    theodore dalrymple

    ‘When shall we be free of this evil?’

    This was a question, asked by Transylvanian peasants in Dracula films starring Christopher Lee, that engraved itself on my mind more than 50 years ago. Now I’m beginning to ask the same question about COVID-19.

    Only six days ago (as I write this), an article in the said an Israeli study gave us hope

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