![]() ![]() National and local governments have always been late to respond and have distorted facts and manipulated figures to deny the existence of the outbreak. The initial response to the outbreak of a pandemic has always been denial. Throughout human and literary history what makes pandemics alike is not mere commonality of germs and viruses but that our initial responses were always the same. ![]() There is an overabundance of similarities. They are most curious about similarities between the current coronavirus pandemic and the historical outbreaks of plague and cholera. Over the last two months, friends and family, editors and journalists who know the subject of that novel, “Nights of Plague,” have been asking me a barrage of questions about pandemics. ![]() ISTANBUL - For the past four years I have been writing a historical novel set in 1901 during what is known as the third plague pandemic, an outbreak of bubonic plague that killed millions of people in Asia but not very many in Europe. ![]()
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