Nature's revenge

The fact is that so much of this virus transference is happening because of our dystopian relationship with the natural world

Call it the revenge of the bug. The new coronavirus, named 2019-nCoV, has done to the Chinese economy what US President Donald Trump could not do. It has wreaked havoc on the world’s second-largest economy, grinding it to a halt, shutting down its cities, and isolating its people. Today, we are seeing perhaps the largest effort ever to contain the spread of this infection — Chinese President Xi Jinping called it a people’s war on the virus. But the worrying question is this: With over 600 deaths and over 31,000 people infected in just about a month, how long will