Day 36: life in Italy under lockdown. The Anna Karenina principle of pandemics
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4 min readApr 12, 2020
As literature buffs know, Leo Tolstoy’s book Anna Karenina famously begins: “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.”
The same may be said of pandemics: All healthy countries are alike; each unhealthy country facing a pandemic deals with it in its own way. This principle has been in dramatic…