Word: epidemicã
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Another problem is the dire predictions and catastrophic language being used to describe the spread of the disease. Headlines calling the disease an “epidemic?? when the number of people possibly infected in this country is still miniscule make the disease appear much more serious and widespread than it has proven so far. (Although China, as usual, has been prevaricating about the extent of infection, and it might be larger there than Beijing admits.) Harvard’s recommended moratorium on University-related trips to East Asia is overcautious. The recommendation has added to the sense...
...they refused to murder their parents and join his anti-government militia. Imagine that the Swiss government had fallen and a warlord from Geneva was stopping United Nations food rations from reaching a starving people. And imagine that such tumult was unfolding against a backdrop of an incurable epidemic??one that had already infected one quarter of the entire European population...