As the worldwide COVID 19 pandemic continues, it seems obvious that things are not going to go 'back to normal' anytime soon. Unemployment is climbing - possibly to rates not seen in decades. Economic activity is grinding to a halt.…
The great recession of 2008 was of course not that great for most of us. Companies went down the tubes, people lost their jobs, and entire sectors of the economy shrank – some never to expand again. Today things are, well,…
Disease has been a fact of life since, well, forever. The plague ravaged much of the world in multiple waves starting in the 1300s. Influenza infected 27% of the world's population in 1919-20, killing between 17 and 50 million. More…