This fictionalized script (fictional dialogue between Coronavirus and the Philosopher) traces the contours of the conversation that seeks to fathom the crisis unleashed by the outbreak and global spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19 pandemic) and the ensuing anxieties created in our current social living. The scenario of deepened isolation of the self from the other (social distancing and ‘stay-at-home’ or various lockdowns) is considered, and it is proposed (by the philosopher, I presume) that isolation, while an unavoidable requirement, does not mean it is some mental lassitude but rather may be seen as an enthusiastic concern toward recovering physical and mental wellbeing of the larger communities concerned to control the possible avenues of transmission of the contagion. The conversation meanders around the issue of quarantine, its attraction or otherwise, and who benefits from this restriction, its effects on one’s mental constitution, etc. Philosophers have been known to isolate themselves in other contexts and situations (Yajñvalkya and the Buddha withdrawing to the forest; the Jain mendicants crossing “the ford”; the Stoics withdrawing from society, Nietzsche’s retreating regularly to the sanatorium; Heidegger to the Black Forrest; Kant’s unsocial sociability and Wittgenstein living lonesome lives, etc.) give us a taste of what is to come in the dialogue to resist the calamity of the coronavirus and its grim effects that engulf the entire humanity.

这个虚构的剧本（冠状病毒和哲学家之间的虚构对话）描绘了对话的轮廓，旨在理解冠状病毒（COVID-19大流行）的爆发和全球传播所引发的危机以及我们当前社会生活中随之而来的焦虑。考虑了自我与他人加深隔离（社交距离和“呆在家里”或各种封锁）的情况，并且（我认为是哲学家提出的）提出，隔离虽然是不可避免的要求，但确实这并不意味着这是某种精神上的倦怠，而是可能被视为对恢复更大社区的身心健康以控制传染病的可能传播途径的热情关注。谈话围绕着隔离的问题，它的吸引力或其他，以及谁从这种限制中受益，它对一个人的精神构成的影响等等。众所周知，哲学家在其他背景和情况下孤立自己（Yajñvalkya和佛陀退出到森林；耆那教的乞丐渡过“渡口”；斯多葛学派的退出；尼采定期隐居到黑森林；康德的不合群的社交和维特根斯坦的孤独生活等等）让我们领略到了现实。参与对话，抵抗冠状病毒的灾难及其席卷全人类的严峻影响。