'Or maybe people are genuinely unaware that lockdown is pure selfishness posturing as virtuous act. Our willingness to risk despicable new levels of inequality until a vaccine turns up may reflect a shift in the moral philosophy of the Left. As the German sociologist Ulrich Beck put it in his 1986 book Risk Society, which became a cult classic in the wake of Chernobyl: “The dream of the old society is that everyone wants and ought to have a share of the pie. The utopia of the risk society is that everyone should be spared from poisoning.”'