"Blindness" by Jose Saramago.

Blindness...
The whole novel keeps the question "what if" in the back of your mind. You constantly wonder what if this really happened? What would I do? Well the world might just find out! SAARs the latest disease is very fatal and unfortunately very contagious. New York is already thinking about quarantining carriers of the disease as written in the Washington Post in the article Quarantine Island. Could this revert back and in some way parallel with Jose Saramago's mind-bending novel Blindness? In which as many carriers are quarantined as possible, but the disease still spreads; people r…