“The real as impossible to bear” Jacques Lacan, “Ouverture de la Section Clinique” “Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind” John Donne, Devotion 17   We knew that epidemics existed. They may have been confined to our memories. We knew about the plague, cholera, tuberculosis, typhus, measles, polio, AIDS, Ebola, and [...]