Fighting a microscopic force requires ordinary people to become super heroes #coronavirus

What a dull and miserable weekend it was! No tennis, no Formula 1 and no soccer. To add to our misery there’s the spectre of recession, load shedding and piles of dirt on the roads. Before it was Brexit. Now all you hear day and night on the news channels is the wretched Covid-19.

We have already become a nation living in fear, barricading our homes against brazen criminals who have taken over towns and neighbourhoods.

Now we have to contend with another deadly enemy so tiny and microscopic that we cannot even see it. But it carries a lethal force.

Like squirrels we scurry to the shopping malls emptying the shelves of essential items to store up for the hard times ahead.

How could humankind, which is the most successful species on Earth, be at the mercy of such a tiny thing as a virus?

Did any astrologer worth their salt look into their crystal glass and prophesise that a disease of Biblical proportions would descend upon the Earth and threaten to wipe out the human race?

Never before in living memory did the entire world unite to stop the relentless march of an enemy.

Could the Covid-19 pandemic then be a dire warning to humans not to be so sure of their success and importance on Earth?

Could it be nature’s way of culling the prolific human race that lays waste the Earth?

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