A Global Pandemic Changes Your View of Things

I'm wondering how an ongoing global pandamic changes your view of things. Documenting the facts of human progress is not the same as saying bad things can never happen again, you say. Progress is always a somewhat sisophean battle against the forces of nature that grind us down, including infectious disease. Our bodies are, from the point of view of a germ, big, yummy mounds chocolate cake. Theyare there for the eating....