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The economics of coronavirus.
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- Author(s): Horvat, Srecko
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New Statesman. 2/21/2020, Vol. 149 Issue 5508, p13-14. 2p.
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Faced with popular fears of coronavirus, it is useful to return to Thomas Mann's novel Death in Venice (1912), in which a mysterious disease (later revealed to be cholera) spreads through the tourist "paradise". A virus is not only a biological agent that replicates inside the living cells of an organism; it is part of an ideology that constructs the "Other" as a disease. On 30 January, in response to the first reported cases of coronavirus in Italy, Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far-right Lega, tweeted: "And they said we were spectators and alarmists. [Extracted from the article]
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