Value the lives of those you don’t know

‘This just got real” has become a regular phrase people say when they find out that someone close to them or someone they consider important or famous has either been diagnosed with or succumbed to the Covid-19 coronavirus. It is a phrase of fear.

For many who say it, they are reckoning with the pain of loss and helplessness brought on by Covid-19 as they finally realise its might and brutality. The phrase also reveals