The Pestilential Imagination: Albert Camus and Why Americans Finally Got Serious about COVID-19
7 min readMar 14, 2020
“Our townsfolk were not more to blame than others; they forgot to be modest, that was all, and thought that everything still was possible for them; which presupposed that pestilences were impossible. They went on doing business, arranged for journeys, and formed views. How should they have given a thought to anything like…
