The Plague redux

Albert Camus’ novel from 1947 provides a peek into the absurdity of human behaviour and the inherent failure of authority when faced with a disease crisis.

Soon after we went into the national lockdown in March, my TV service provider had the idea of offering a number of films dealing with outbreaks of all manner of diseases in its free movie package. I initially wondered what would drive people to watch such movies when the same thing is being played out in real-time everywhere. I suppose the TV chaps knew human nature much better since, within days, I had watched a couple of those.