While a vaccine might be an antidote to the corona crisis, uncertainty acts against human greed A news report in the Financial Times (Obesity Dangers Make Covid-19 A Rebuke To Unequal Societies, 2 May 2020) set me thinking.
First, we learnt that the virus largely infected the elderly and otherwise vulnerable. Fatality among youngsters was rare. Then, we learnt that many were asymptomatic.
For a while, the possibility that loss of smell was a strong symptom of infection was in circulation. Then, we learnt that countries in colder regions bore the brunt of covid-19, while countries in warmer parts of the world did not fare as badly.