Do you remember how during his first term Donald Trump kept calling Covid the "Chinese Virus"? This impulse to point fingers across borders is nothing new. When syphilis swept Europe after the 1495 Naples outbreak, no nation would own it. Instead, blame spread faster than an STD in a retreating French army platoon: the Russians called it the "Polish Disease," the Poles called it the "
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