Source: Brownstone Institute
by Filipe Rafaeli
Before properly starting this article, I’ll recall a phrase that almost everyone knows: ‘History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as a farce.’ The author is the German philosopher Karl Marx. … And to complement it, I’ll quote another phrase. This one, unlike the first, is less known: ‘What experience and history teaches us is that people and governments have never learned anything from history.’ This was said by Hegel, another famous German philosopher. Why do I start by talking about history? Because before delving into the core of this article, which discusses the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s necessary to recall the previous pandemic: AIDS, a disease that terrified and devastated the world from the mid-1980s, resulting in the loss of about 40 million lives, according to UNAIDS official estimates.” (05/06/24)
https://brownstone.org/articles/history-repeats-itself-early-treatment/