Anti-vaxxers will sink future fights

It's hard to believe that it was five years ago that reports were coming out of Wuhan in China about a new, virulent respiratory virus... and how the world would soon tumble into a vortex of grief, anger and disbelief.

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Covid was the worst modern pandemic, claiming millions of lives, no matter what the conspiracy theorists – themselves fortunate not to catch it – may say about it being a hoax and some sort of plot by those who "control the world".

The virus spread far more rapidly than others in the past, because the world has become a much smaller place, thanks to the ubiquity of modern transport and people's desire to travel.