Glavin: COVID-19 isn't just challenging health care; it's challenging liberal democracy too

“Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky."  That's from Albert Camus' classic 1947 novel The Plague, an allegory of fascism that eerily describes our current circumstances, up against that deadly microscopic beast that first began devouring people in China's Wuhan province last November. "There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and w