What Our Contagion Fables Are Really About … A fascinating though frightening perspective

“In the literature of pestilence, the greatest threat isn’t the loss of human life but the loss of what makes us human.” By Jill Lepore for the New Yorker.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/03/30/what-our-contagion-fables-are-really-about