La Peste?

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Anyone else had to study this at school/university?
Any thoughts?

What I keep thinking about is the town closing its borders so as to contain the plague and that being the right thing to do. Parallels with local lockdowns and even border control.

Plus the town turning its back on the sea, which is like the government and Home Office and police stopping people going to the countryside or coast during lockdown. Spending time in nature never spread Covid.

Plus the 'do the minimum of harm' thing. Seems to me letting Covid rip was the opposite of this. Plus the effect on the children. Once again it looks like the children and young people are going to be the ones who suffer in the next lockdown, whilst being the last to be vaccinated.

Apologies to all those who will not have a clue what I am going on about and those who think it is pretentiousness.

Maybe it should be required reading for the government? Together with a little crib-notes book to help them understand.

No takers?
I would have posted in Books but it would have been moved here eventually.

WWCD - what would Camus do?

Good topic. But there isn't any government that can afford to close borders today. By April or May 2020 there was a rating agency, perhaps Moody's, already threatening to downgrade a country (can't remember which one) because of the anticipated effects of the pandemic on its GDP and public debt. Banks and investors judge countries based on how quickly their economies can come back to normal or remain open. That's why there is so much emphasis on vaccines right now, whenever a banker or analyst talks about the economy. Those who march in Brazil demanding that local governors lift any restrictions do it because they know that the country can't afford to close and because they fear poverty more than Covid.
I understood these things pretty late - at first I thought that the only possible priority for every government was to save lives and contain the spread of Covid. But the priority is in fact to persuade markets and investors that ”we” (UK, EU, US, any country) are resilient and creditworthy.