April 3, 2020

In 1997 Jared Diamond won the Pulitzer Prize for Guns, Germs and Steel a book that should be compulsory reading to all those who are interested in the potential power of a pandemic to change the world. The germs he was writing about includes the likes of today’s Covid-19 but covers the history of the Black Plague, Cholera and the 1919 Spanish, 1957 Asian and 1968 Hong Kong flu outbreaks. Diamond details how pandemics have