“Cancer is a death sentence, opined Susan Sontag in Illness As Metaphor, such that it must be hidden from the patient, “to de-mythicize” it. Tuberculosis had also invited secrecy, as if to mention it by name would truly seal the patient’s fate. We can hardly say the same of Covid-19, with each new day saturated with news of the spread whether we want to hear or not.
But there is a hidden element t”
