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March 24, 2020 by Richard Schulman 1 Comment

Is there not an eerie resemblance between this photo from contemporary Wuhan, China:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/24/world/asia/china-coronavirus-lockdown-hubei.html

and this photo capturing an event in a neighboring province 2,100 years earlier?

A portion of the vast terracotta army buried in 210-209 B.C. with Qin Shih Huang, China's first totalitarian emperor.
A portion of the vast terracotta army buried in 210-209 B.C. with Qin Shih Huang, China’s first totalitarian emperor. (Wikipedia)

Two millenia, two hated totalitarian emperors. The Chinese people deserve better. So does the rest of the world, now suffering from a plague visited upon it by the new Qin Shih Huang Di, Xi Jinping.

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