Mark Honigsbaum: Challenging the ‘Great Reset’ theory of pandemics

May 28, 2021

Thucydides saw plague as an opportunity to improve the health of society. But history shows that pandemics have a way of disrupting medical and social progress. Read by Leighton Pugh.

A 19th-century color lithograph
A 19th-century color lithograph, with the caption 'Cholera Tramples the Victor and the Vanquish'd Both,' depicts a giant skeleton trampling over a battlefield. Credit: Bettmann

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