As a contagion spreads, infecting thousands, and forcing thousands more into quarantine, the world -and life as we know it – changes.
With disrupted daily life, closed schools, packed hospitals, and absent social gatherings, sporting events ,concerts, conferences, festivals and travel plans ; life and society ,as we know it , gets put on indefinite hold…
In 1947, when he was 34, Albert Camus, the Algerian-born French writer (won a Nobel Prize for Literature at 44, and died in a car crash aged 47) provided an astonishingly detailed and penetrating answer to these questions in his novel The Plague.
Camus shows how easy it is to mistake an epidemic for an annoyance.
He also wrote that in times of pestilence we learn that there is more to admire in men, than to despise
I hope it’s true
I hope it’s true ..
I hope it’s true …
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