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Will coronavirus change the way we talk about death?

14 May 2020

7:19 PM

14 May 2020

7:19 PM

Every generation has an event that defines it. For my father, it was the Second World War. For his father, the First World War. Some might have thought Brexit would have been ours, but the coronavirus pandemic puts politics into perspective. There is no doubt that 2020 will be viewed by historians in the same way 1918 is now: as the year of the plague.

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