As the waves of severe acute respiratory syndrome swept the world – those who had told us to “imagine” the new possibilities that were heralded by the arrival of the pestilence simply closed their doors to the microbial danger that existed beyond the boundary of their abodes. Of course, it did not take long for this imagined scenario of egalitarianism to be unveiled as the lie that it was. Politicians, bureaucrats, and celebrities drew on the language of communalism to emphasize that everyone would be affected equally by the coming crisis, and that, only by drawing on the egalitarianism gifted to us by our common humanity would we have any chance of beating the virus. As the Coronavirus pandemic spread throughout the world, and a flurry of lockdowns and border closures were announced, the now-familiar calls of “we are all in this together” rang out from the top echelons of society.
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