Life in a Pandemic: Some Reflections from The Plague (1947) and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Melchor L. Cuizon and Nympha C. Cuizon
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Melchor L. Cuizon: Department of Social Sciences, Central Luzon State University, Philippines
Nympha C. Cuizon: Department of Social Sciences, Central Luzon State University, Philippines

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, 2022, vol. 6, issue 1, 382-385

Abstract: Human existence is a continual struggle against various kinds of calamities including infectious diseases like the COVID-19 virus that threatens the vulnerability of human life. It has affected humanity throughout the globe who are either hungry due to financial crisis or hospitalized or even killed because of the virus infections. This enduring threat continues to persist as long as the holding sway of the coronavirus remains unresolved. It is no accident that the pandemic of the century mirrors The Plague (1947) of Albert Camus in which both catastrophic events challenged the social order and the vulnerability of human life. Although the health crisis exists in a different period in the history of mankind, nevertheless, the existential crisis it has created has no different. This paper aims to (1) highlight some of the similar events in both pandemics and (2) argue that the pandemic can be an avenue for religious introspection.

Date: 2022
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