Global Plague, Local Pain: Mourning the Tragedy of Covid
Global Plague, Local Pain: Mourning the Tragedy of Covid

Summary/Abstract: In June 2022, I went down with Covid for the first time in more than two years of the pandemic. I suffered the usual symptoms of those who have already been safely vaccinated: sore throat, headache, fatigue, slight fever. Lying on the sofa I thought how strange it felt that the virus which had damaged the world economy and closed down country after country, from China to Europe, from New Zealand to the USA, had somehow settled now in my own throat. There could be, I reflected, no more graphic an illustration of the global/local nature of the pandemic, the coming together of the general and the particular, than the intimate feeling of harbouring the world’s first truly global plague in your own tonsils.

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