“This pandemic has magnified every existing inequality in our society – like systemic racism, gender inequality, and poverty” (Ford, 2020).

It is the end of the 18th century in Paris, and French society is crumbling under the oppressive rule of King Louis XVI; the middle class is shrinking, and the population of the unfortunate majority is growing exponentially. The hungry, gnashing masses have dismantled the system that left them to starve, and a bloody era of Terror is about to commence. Bienvenue à France au 18eme siecle, aux Bals des Victimes, or, “welcome to 18th century France at the Victim’s Balls,” where French socialites mingled together in lavish ballrooms to twirl away the trauma of the last decade. Flash forward more than two hundred years later to 2021, and you will find similar circumstances amidst the Coronavirus pandemic which has plagued the world for over a year.