An Uncertain Sound: Contradictory Signals in the Battle Against COVID
April 21, 2021 For millennia, trumpet-type instruments have played an important part in military history. In ancient times, a ram’s horn was used. In more recent centuries, the bugle was deployed. Such an instrument was used in the famed Charge of the Light Brigade. It was used throughout the Civil War and at Custer’s Last Stand. As strange as it might seem, the bugle was in use as late as the 1950s when masses of Chinese troops would follow it’s…