Echoes of the Great Famine in the Covid Era by Robert Billard at Brownstone Institute "A Terrible Record" (John Johnson, Weekly Freeman July 2nd, 1881) In Spring 2020, supposedly “civilized” nations of the world tackled the prospects of how best to subjugate their domestic populations. At this time I was struck by seemingly obvious parallels to another sad chapter in the history of human misery: the Irish Potato Famine. There are many core similarities marking the two calamities. Both evo...
