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COVID-19疫情爆發後，《人類簡史》三部曲作者、以色列歷史學者哈拉瑞撰文提出他的擔憂。此次疫情殘酷地曝露出早已存在人類社會的各種問題，一如《微物之神》作者阿蘭達蒂．洛伊（Arundhati Roy）所形容的，疫情照亮了本來被遮蔽之物。當商店、餐廳、工廠和建築工地關閉，富人和中產階級將自己隔離在他們的安居之所時，城鎮開始擠壓出其中的勞動和底層階級，移工、難民首當其衝。此外，疫情亦明顯曝露出，全球最大的公共衛生治理機構世界衛生組織（WHO），在面對COVID-19此類全球大流行的疫情時，無法協助會員國及早建立應變機制的失能狀態⋯⋯
In December 2019, a large-scale outbreak of a novel coronavirus (COVID-19) emerged in Wuhan, China. Within just a few months, the virus rapidly spread across the globe, with the number of infections and deaths climbing relentlessly. As of today, over 150 million people worldwide have been infected, and more than 3.3 million lives have been lost. How did this pandemic begin? And more importantly—can humanity learn from it to prevent history from repeating itself?