One further thought on The Plague: criminals of all sorts are safe in wartime, aren’t they? They are also safe when criminals run the government.
We are presently plague-stricken, are we not? One can only guess when and if the disease will pass.
The task of healers is to do what little we can, where we can, and not ask or expect too much. That is unheroic, but a truly good heroism may not be possible. I don’t know. I don’t know.