by Greg Maybury 📖 👉 Brief: The emergence in 2020 of the Coronavirus (or Covid-19) and the putative dire implications for us all of its unchecked spread and virulence caught most people on the planet off guard. For a variety of reasons, this development signalled an epochal turning point for the global political economy, for our society and humanity. Greg Maybury gets up close and personal with the ‘pox’, reflecting especially on the ‘popular delusions and madness of crowds’ attending it, and the agendas of those purporting to manage the crisis in our best interests. In this context, he…