We do not know how many people will die and how great a death toll a country like Indonesia will tolerate: 100,000? 2.5 million? We do not know how great the extent of the economic crisis caused by the pandemic will be. Will its victims be greater and more widespread than the victims of the virus?

This pestilence-sans-frontière is probably not as terrifying as the epidemics of centuries past in terms of the number of deaths, but Covid-19&