Chinese pig-farm workers would have been greeted with an uninterested sigh. These days, of course, it causes a collective gasp of horror.
Many have taken the recent reports as terrifying evidence that a second player has entered the game. 2020 is, after all, the year of the unthinkable.Although it is probably not worth stockpiling canned goods quite yet, and the emerging virus is simply one of interest that has not yet been shown to pass from human to human, it was perhaps a mass failure of the imagination that meant we had to experience a deadly pandemic in order to fully appreciate the dangers that exist.
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