La Peste

Now that people are stuck at home perhaps one should consider has previous generations of humans dealt with such pandemics. Three come to mind. Boccaccio, Defoe, and Camus. For Boccaccio it was sitting it out with ten well off people outside of the city swapping stories of some bawdy nature. One should compare that with Chaucer, who had met Boccaccio on one of his Royal missions, who wrote of the common person on their journey to Canterbury.

The there is Defoe in London, and the complex detail of the handling of the plague there. Finally, the fictional plague in Algeria, by Camus, perhaps the most compelling telling of social collapse and the metaphor of plague for social instability.

Plagues, those due to rats and their accomplices or viruses and their attack mechanisms can evoke the best and worst of humans. Read Camus, it's on Kindle, then think who fits where. Most importantly think who the rats represent. You have time. Hopefully.