" But what did that prove? Only that still more stringent measures should be applied.
"How? You can't make more stringent ones than those we have now."
"No. But every person in town must apply them to himself."
Cottard stared at him in a puzzled manner, and Tarrou went on to say that there were far too many slackers, that this plague was everybody's business, and everyone should do his duty. "

― Neil Bartlett , The Plague