Trailing an epidemic

In the Indonesian island of Sulawesi (Celebes), the outbreak of misfortune or an epidemic was blamed on unseen devils

Confusion, fear and panic have gripped countries and corporations in the past few months as the novel coronavirus continues its unstoppable march through the world. And though science offers us a far more sophisticated set of tools to deal with a pandemic of this nature today than it did millions of years ago, there seems to be little change in the way people have reacted to such calamitous circumstances. 

Irrationality was the leitmotif in the past as it is now, evidenced in the many cures being presented by official and unofficial sources and in the panic-mongering across the messaging boards and