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Faith, Society, Politics: How the Coronavirus is Changing the World

…that many had the plague in their very blood, and preying upon their spirits, and were in themselves but walking putrefied carcasses whose breath was infectious and their sweat poison, and yet were as well to look on as other people, and even knew it not themselves… From A Journal of the Plague Year (1722) by Daniel Defoe A pandemic has hit the world and it is profoundly changing the political, economic, social and spiritual aspects of life in the 21st century.