Last Word
The coronavirus fills me with terror, and it's nothing to do with my health
Each new terrible global event is really just a staging point for the theatre of my own paranoia
16 February 2020 - 00:00
It's the week of Valentine's Day, so a young man's fancies turn to thoughts of the coronavirus. I guess potential global pandemics mean different things to different people; they're a sort of Rorschach test for our anxieties...
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