The Leader Newspaper
Coronavirus Ignoramuses by David Aitken
Occasionally, Japanese soldiers used to emerge from jungles, still blissfully unaware World War 2 had ended 60 years before.
Blissfully probably isn’t the right word in that context, but I keep waiting for similar coronavirus ignoramuses to pop up, or out, elsewhere. In Dinosaur, Colorado, perhaps yes, it exists or Uncertain, Texas. And how can I resist mentioning Coward in South Carolina, whose population refuses to disclose the origin of its name, despite being constantly assured they have nothing to fear.
It seems almost impossible to believe that there is anyone left in the world who isn’t aware of, or whose life hasn’t been affected in some way by, our 21st century pestilence. “I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear,” Iago says of Othello. Some might think the Moor of Venice (or Cyprus) got off lightly.