Reflections on Our Recent Visitation.

The article explores historical parallels between England' London's bubonic plague of 1665 and modern pandemics, reflecting on societal responses, individual freedoms, and governmental overreach during crises. It critiques the atomization of modern life exacerbated by social media's divisive influence and laments the erosion of traditional community bonds in favor of state intervention and corporate dominance in public health and governance.