Pandemics like the coronavirus are the ultimate leveller
As the US, the world’s richest and most powerful country, desperately fights a deadly virus with its coronavirus cases topping everyone else's, an unusual picture of equality, empowered by the virus’ brutal treatment of all humans no matter who they are, emerges.
The world’s seemingly untouchable elites are as vulnerable as the working class to what the US President Donald Trump called “an invisible enemy”.said David Rosner, Among the infected elites are Rand Paul, the US Republican senator, Monaco’s Prince Albert II, Canadian first lady Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, Spain’s Deputy Prime Minister Carmen Calvo, actors Tom Hanks and Idris Elba, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Harvard University President Lawrence Bacow and others.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo speaks in front of stacks of medical protective supplies during a news conference at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center which will be partially converted into a temporary hospital during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in New York City, March 24, 2020. Fearing for their lives, some Americans, whose country has become the epicentre of the pandemic, are also seeking to leave home for Mexico, where they are not being welcomed either.
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