In A Pandemic, the Cult of Individuality Is Deadly

Michelle Teheux
4 min readMar 12, 2020
My pantry is stocked, but I wonder who touched those beans before I picked them up.

Our cherished belief in the power of the individual has always led to harmful policies. Will a deadly pandemic be the thing that convinces us we all depend on each other?

If you need to be convinced that the Cult of Individuality exists before we get into how it is worsening the current pandemic, here are a few examples:

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Michelle Teheux

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