Birthdays for American entertainers Bette Midler (1945), Janelle Monáe (1985) and Zoe Kravitz (1988)
Anniversary of:
• the Ford Motor Company establishing the world’s first moving assembly line (1913)
• the invention of modern-day Bingo by American toymaker Edwin S Lowe (1929)
• Hugh Hefner publishing the first edition of Playboy magazine featuring Marilyn Monroe as the centrefold (1953)
• the arrest of Rosa Parks for refusing to move to the back of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama (1955)
• the signing of the Antarctic Treaty (1959)
• Papua New Guinea gaining self-governance from Australia (1973)
• the earliest traceable patient, a 55yo man, developing symptoms of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China (2019)
Imagine being the one. The very beginning. The man or woman struck down with the very first COVID-19 symptoms.
There wasn’t a name for it then. The person infected might have just thought they had the flu.
They wouldn’t have known that the virus would go on to infect 2 million people worldwide, leading to 170,000 deaths and sparking economic chaos.
We can only imagine, because we don’t know for sure who that patient zero is or was.
But we do know they came from Hubei province in China and most likely lived in the city of Wuhan.
