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It’s not all bad news

Even a deadly pandemic has its positives

7 March 2020

9:00 AM

7 March 2020

9:00 AM

The first piece of advice is to view coronavirus as a blessing. ‘If only there could be something to unite all humans against a common enemy — like a meteorite heading towards earth,’ said my wise older friend Anne some years ago, ‘then all wars would stop.’ I always thought she had a point.

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