Remember COVID?

The COVID pandemic, which began four years ago, seems like a science fiction story in retrospect, with mass public lockdowns, vast handouts of government support and closely watched daily press conferences about a new disease which now seems little more threatening than the common cold.

The COVID chronicles

Pandemics force us to face our mortality, prompting profound questions about life’s meaning. It is not surprising, therefore, that since the days of medieval plague outbreaks, infectious diseases have attracted the imagination of novelists.