Albert Camus, Covid-19, and what is says about modern Britain?

John Wight
5 min readFeb 17, 2021

As only he could, Albert Camus in his classic 1947 novel, The Plague, mines the human condition in the midst of a crisis in which solidarity, selflessness and mutuality are the means of survival, and in which individualism, selfishness and self-regard are death itself.

Camus:

This whole thing is not about heroism…

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