In one sense, the COVID-19 pandemic has struck the world like a bolt out of the blue, a seemingly unpredictable event that suddenly halted commerce and brought on a global economic recession if not depression, with millions of people now furloughed or unemployed. In another sense, for those who study history, it was entirely predictable, something we co…
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