Adaptation-Level Phenomenon

The plague now seems to be acting like an invasive dark cloud that is just finding its way into every aspect of the people's lives. They do not really remember their past, and they have no hopes or dreams for the future. There is not really much to differentiate one from an other. Well, of course, when all you see is people dying and there is no escape, you stop thinking about your interests and even less your personality. What is weird is that as a reader, I have gotten uncomfortably used to the hole notion of that plague and the deaths at Oran. The fact that there is no room at the cemetery and that they are cargo burying people does not phase me. I guess its like what the people in Oran feel. They are no longer so panicky and crazed as they were at the beginning. The adaptation-level phenomenon. People adapt their current situation as their new norm. Their norm, full of disease, loneliness, death and insignificance. They might as well just abide by the rules and ride it out. It is sad but it happens. Inhabitants of countries that are long at war adapt to the fact that they are at war and then cannot imagine what life was like without it. The big black cloud over Oran.