What is Wrong with the World?

Whether or not we contract Covid-19, the entire human race already has been infected by a pandemic that leads to certain death. No one is…

Photo by Matthew T Rader

In the mid-14th century, a bacterium called yersinia pestis was carried by fleas from Asia to Europe, being transported on rats that commonly infested merchant ships. As these ships arrived in ports such as Constantinople, Marseilles, and Barcelona, the rats would disembark, carrying the infected fleas through Europe. And the Bub…