The summer of 2020 has shown us how much we all depend on one another.
Whatever else they do, pandemics show us we are not alone.
Covid-19 is proof that, yes, there is such a thing as society; the disease has spread precisely because we aren't autonomous individuals disconnected from each other, but rather all belong to one great body of humanity.
The pain inflicted by the pandemic is far from equally distributed.
Yet it reveals ever more clearly how much we all depend on one another.
Plough Publishing House Plough quarterly no. 25 - solidarity, paperback/james gurney
