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 "With our strong sense of individual rights, would it be constitutional to force people to stay on campus or receive vaccines? Would students abide by the college’s rules of staying on campus, especially since we do not have gates surrounding our campus. How would we choose to spend our time? Would we go about business as usual, attending classes on campus until the flu was deemed as “over”?"

I think this is a really interesting thought. I feel like between the lines of this statement is the fact that it seems like the characters in The Plague did not have a "strong sense of individual rights," or the right to leave the town. At what point does a government, or an administration in the above case of Bryn Mawr, have the right to take control and subsequently strip us of our right to chose where we go? Is our generation one that would not stand without protest if a governing body took control over us specifically? What about when they decide our whole country's involvement in a foreign war? The government in The Plague is not discussed in much detail, except for the two soldiers which are involved in the "escape" efforts. What does this say about the importance placed on individual rights in this book??