Coronavirus Covid-19 A Suitable Case for a Requiem – Part One by Giovanni Di Stefano
When President Donald Trump at his daily press conference on Wednesday 18 March 2020 used the phrase “…the Chinese flu” it was a déjà vu moment. In 1918 it was the then US President, Woodrow Wilson, who called the flu epidemic, that killed 50 million people worldwide, the ‘Spanish Flu’ only because it killed the leading member of Spain’s Royal Family. The so-called ‘Spanish Flu’ originated from a farm in Kentucky, USA, and a farmworker who joined the US…