ALBERTO DE FEO -- Humans are very resilient, and this too shall pass, but how we react to this is what is going to make and is making a difference
Things have changed ... Only less than two months ago, I wrote about the challenges of today’s human nature and how difficult has become to communicate. At that time, the novel coronavirus (or COVID-19) was scourging China and a few other Asian countries. And then, a few days after my article, all hell broke loose. Today, I am in my home office trying to stay safe from this new plague which, as of today, has infected almost 1.7 million people and killed more than 100,000. This is not the first, nor will be the last, time a new virus or a bacterium has brought havoc to the world. The Spanish influenza of 1918 is a scorching example of this. Ebola, which has a mortality rate of 52% of those infected, happened only a few years ago. Ebola is not new, but it is real and lethal as well. They say that COVID-19 has a much higher mortality rate than the flu. So, we need to be careful and find ways to fight back. However, we...