The virus taught us that the human species is not as powerful as it fancies itself to be

The year Covid forced us to feel the texture of history

07 December 2020 - 07:16
By prince mashele AND Prince Mashele

In February 1918, the world was hit by a flu that those who lived through at the time had never experienced: the Spanish flu, which lasted until 1920.

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