Where it all goes down

So, without completely ignoring what is currently what is happening with the plague, let's refresh on the setting. Oran, the wonderful little town in Algeria. It is bleak, it is stagnant, and nothing really changes. I can imagine, by Camus's sentence of "the seasons are discriminated only in the sky," that holidays are not even that celebrated. Life just goes on in a monotone manner for the inhabitants of Oran. In addition, this lackluster town in Northern Continental Africa, is located in a plateau in the middle of a mountain range. Oran is literally blocked out by natural barriers from the rest of the world, even before the whole plague thing started. So it is interesting to see that although they have technically been on lockdown all of this time, they start expressing their feelings of isolation and desperation when the lockdown due to the plague starts. The plague is like a catalyst for all of these emotions to explode in the citizens of Oran.