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Pandemic truths 6: How Covid-19 shone a spotlight on the warped values of our current way of life 

‘Indeed, the one thing these prophecies had in common was that, ultimately, all were reassuring. Unfortunately, though, the plague was not.’ ‘The truth is that nothing is less sensational...

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Pandemic truths 5: How Covid-19 shone a spotlight on the warped values of our current way of life 

‘What’s natural is the microbe. All the rest – health, integrity, purity (if you like) – is a product of the human will, of a vigilance that must never...

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Pandemic truths 4: How Covid-19 shone a spotlight on the warped values of our current way of life

‘All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it’s up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with...

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Pandemic truths 3: How Covid-19 shone a spotlight on the warped values of our current way of life

‘The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.’ Albert Camus, The Plague This is the third in a series of articles in which Andrew Webster...

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Pandemic truths 2: How Covid-19 shone a spotlight on the warped values of our current way of life

‘Perhaps the easiest way of making a town’s acquaintance is to ascertain how the people in it work, how they love, and how they die.’ Albert Camus, The Plague This...

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Pandemic truths 1: How Covid-19 shone a spotlight on the warped values of our current way of life

‘Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves.’ Albert Camus, The Plague Barry Knight’s 2017...

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