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10 October 2020

9:00 AM

10 October 2020

9:00 AM

The Pied Piper of Pandemic Porn

‘Fool me once,’ say Americans, ‘shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.’ The saying keeps echoing endlessly in my mind as I watch governments, parliaments and media give continuing credence to Professor Neil Ferguson of Imperial College London as a leading world authority on epidemics, pandemics and infectious diseases.

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