Peking: A woman in a blue coat takes a throat swab from a woman for a Covid-19 test. Before the People’s Congress in China, participating media representatives had to have a Covid test. (Photo by Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance via Getty Images)
There’s an African proverb that goes, “when two elephants fight, it’s the grass that gets trampled”, which means the weak suffer most in conflicts between the powerful. It’s slightly overused, perhaps because it applies so often.
The latest trampling comes courtesy of the United States…
