Pakistan, April 15 -- "The courage to resist suffering", Sartre said, "was the secret of a man. But the perils of the Resistance were to be shared: and that is why the Resistance was a true democracy; for the soldier, as for his superior, the same danger, the same loneliness, the same responsibility, the same absolute freedom within the discipline".
Had Sartre been around in the Corona times, he might have stated with slight variation what he said under the German occupation 'never were we freer than under' Corona's assault. The freedom we are condemned to, of living alone and lonely within our families in our private prisons called homes without being at home.
After the prolonged state of denial, the leaders of the world finally succumbe...