"If we recall the beginning of the Iliad, we will remember how we encounter a situation that is surprisingly reminiscent of what is happening to us now. Apollo is present and cast in sinister shade darker than the storm clouds - this shows that the god of light, the god of lightness, the god of clarity, the god of constancy, has been angered.

Interestingly, he has been angered by the disrespectful attitude towards his priest, a priest of Apollo, and the result of his irritation toward the Achaeans is a plague.

So the god of light, the god of muses, the god of harmony, the god of exalted beauty is also the source of the plague, the source of the pandemic spreading among the Achaean army.

Another rather important point is that when Apollo comes to the feast of the gods in the same section, all the gods jump up from their seats, as his arrival does not bode well for anyone. This ominous aspect of the god of light, the god of justice, the god of true judgment in the Greek tradition, is very revealing. He carries the plague, he carries the virus, he carries death and extermination. But why?

Here it is important to keep in mind: Apollo took action because his priest was treated disrespectfully. If we break away from the specific history of Homer, we can formulate this philosophical myth as follows: the god of light, the god of the vertical, the god of heaven, the god of Hyperborea punishes humanity, which has been distracted by some completely inappropriate matter, insulting the solar axis in each of us.

In light of this story, the coronavirus, the pandemic, the plague that decimates humanity, becomes understandable.

Apollo is a metaphysical symbol of our appeal to ourselves, to our inner dimension, to our immortal soul, and when people sin against this immortal soul, when they are completely absorbed in the elements of entertainment, the outside world, pleasure-seeking and constant swarming around material goods, things we are obsessed with acquiring, or think we haven’t been given enough of, or want more of, or feel compelled to use up faster...

As soon as people begin to swarm around non-Apollonian values, when this swarm reaches a certain critical point, Apollo sends a plague to humanity, and this is absolutely just and logical, as this plague makes people return to themselves again.

This was mentioned by Albert Camus in his novel "The Plague." He says that the plague is a way to think, it is an invitation for us to think about the most important and fundamental things."

https://www.geopolitica.ru/en/article/thoughts-time-cholera-part-1