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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gavin Richardson, post: 6425805, member: 83956&quot;]A fine article. The second best thing my wife ever did was marry me. The best thing she ever did was get us a subscription to the <i>New York Times</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>&quot;Retracing the role that nature played in Rome’s history reminds us that we, too, are ecologically fragile, the fate of our society only partly under our control. A sense of our fragility should not make us fatalistic. Rather, it should inspire us to be less complacent. Even with all the tools of modern biological science, we could not have predicted exactly when and where a new pandemic would emerge. But we were warned, and those warnings went unheeded, in part because we told stories about ourselves implying that we had been freed from nature, that we were immune from the patterns of the past.&quot;</b></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the madman who presided over Rome during the Antonine Plague.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1254176[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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