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A Replay of the War of the Worlds? COVID-19 and Social Protection

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Like Martians invading Earth in the book, The War of the Worlds, COVID-19 took the world by storm in unprecedented ways, causing havoc and pandemonium in its path of destruction. However, the ironic twist in H. G. Wells’ story is that the invasion from outer space was defeated, not by human technological genius, but by pathogens—by infectious micro-organisms, much like COVID-19. Of course, the major difference between COVID-19 and The War of the Worlds is that the latter was fiction, a figment of human imagination, while the former is not.

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Ratuva, S. (2021). A Replay of the War of the Worlds? COVID-19 and Social Protection. In: Ratuva, S., Ross, T., Crichton-Hill, Y., Basu, A., Vakaoti, P., Martin-Neuninger, R. (eds) COVID-19 and Social Protection. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2948-8_1

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