Black China: A Journey Through History

COVID-19 has reared itself as a Hydra of sorts in today’s society. The Hydra is a Greek mythological serpent-like monster, which can be found in Hesiod’s Theogeny 13. It has multiple heads, and if you cut off one, two more were said to grow in its place. Similarly, the coronavirus seems to be a monster rearing a multitude of ugly heads, from medical difficulties to a dangerous financial impact. One ugly head it rears, cannot be ignored – racism.