Epidemic


Fever 1793
Year of Wonders
The Hot Zone: The Terrifying True Story of the Origins of the Ebola Virus
Blindness
The Ghost Map
The Plague
Station Eleven
The Andromeda Strain (Andromeda, #1)
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History
The Pull of the Stars
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
The Stand
Doomsday Book (Oxford Time Travel, #1)
Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World
Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic
the philanthropic NGO has long been decried by the left as a means of addressing only the symptoms of poverty and thus obscuring the political strategies needed to overcome it. NGOs are criticised for creating Potemkin villages not replicable at scale. their limits are often painfully apparent. some are ‘briefcase’ NGOs, to give their founders income or profit.
Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet

the most sophisticated form of denial is ‘normalization’. the intolerable becomes ‘no longer news’ and people invest in ‘not having an inquiring mind about these matters’.
Alex de Waal, AIDS and Power: Why There Is No Political Crisis – Yet

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