Juan M. Blanco
In Blindness, José Saramago imagined an epidemic that robs people of their sight, plunging society into fear, group pressure, and a sudden collapse of critical judgement. But this kind of thing can happen outside fiction as well. When the Covid-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, the world seemed to lose its perspective. Authorities reacted in ways never before seen in modern times. Overnight, entire countries shut down, fundamental freedoms were suspended, schools closed for months, and any infection was treated as intolerable. Nothing of the sort appeared in the pandemic preparedness plans governments had drafted over decades. No previous pandemic — not even the severe influenza outbreak of 1957 — had been managed in this way.
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