Albert Camus' The plague

First of three epidemic/pandemic related posts, but going beyond the medical and health science.

As it happens, I was reading this book when the current coronavirus outbreak started.  

There is an interesting piece about the book, written at the end of last week, on Literary Hub.

The novel describes a fictional outbreak of bubonic plague in the town of Oran in Algeria, people's reactions to it, and each other, and the decisions that had to be taken.

I am not (and neither is the author of the piece) comparing COVID-19 to bubonic plague but reading the story now does make some of those issues take on a certain relevance.