What is Really Killing Us?

[Coronavirus – XIII]

The Coronavirus is nasty. People have died. It’s tragic and it is time to mourn.

More people will still die. It’s dreadful. In the coming days we will need to support each other through months and months of grief.

Not only have we lost human life, we have lost livelihoods, family businesses, a sense of normalcy. And the future fallout—the direct and indirect deaths that are sure to come—will continue to hurt us all. The losses are deep and far-reaching. So too must be the grief.

At some point as we look back at the trail of hurt, we will wonder, Could any of it have been averted? Maybe not. Maybe so.

And that is when the Coronavirus will shift from being the target of our blame to a window into our lives. It is here that people like us must ask, What is really killing us?