The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. –H. P. Lovecraft
“Hard times,” hip-hop pioneers Run DMC warned us back in 1984, “are spreading, just like the flu.” Never has this been more true than today. As the coronavirus makes its way around the world through countless untraceable contacts among unsuspecting carriers, hard times are following close behind. The UN’s World Food Program expects COVID-19 to put an additional 130 mn people at risk of starvation worldwide. Outside a Las Vegas