#covid19 #auspol Camus is a good guide at every stage of the pandemic. He observed that a plague isn't a…

#covid19 #auspol Camus is a good guide at every stage of the pandemic. He observed that a plague isn't a feeling of being locked down, as it goes on. It's a feeling of exile, from all society. Nobody keeps a vantage point. Hope, blame, despair, choice - all disappear. /1

"Thus week by week the prisoners of plague put up what fight they could. Some...even contrived to fancy they were still behaving as free men and had the power of choice. /2

But actually it would have been truer to say that by this time...the plague had swallowed up everything and everyone. No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and the emotions shared by all. /3

Strongest of these emotions was the sense of exile and of deprivation." /end