Opinion | Could America's pandemic response be any more medieval? - The Washington Post
Not for the first time, it feels as though 21st-century America is 14th-century Europe, reacting with all manner of useless countermeasures to the plague: balancing ill "humors" and dispelling evil "vapors" caused by planetary misalignment, religious marches and public self-flagellation, cures involving live chickens and unicorns, and the wearing of amulets and reciting of "abracadabra."
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