Mother Nature’s 7 Lessons for a Safer World
As the new coronavirus began seeping through national borders three years ago, government responses varied wildly. Some issued travel bans. Others ordered complete lockdowns. Some suggested residents keep to themselves and wear masks when they couldn’t. Other nations urged the young and healthy to go about business as usual, in the hopes that enough infections would quickly lead to herd immunity.
Individual responses were just as varied in as much as they were allowed. Some people isolated at home, adopting virtual technologies for socializing, conducting business, receiving medical care, and learning. Others made masking a new norm whenever they ventured out. Some who could moved to the country, changed jobs, or created social pods. Still others defiantly carried on as usual, determined to not change their behavior in the face of the new threat. Most everyone put down their stakes, while death counts mounted around the globe, convinced that their reaction was the correct reaction.
Defense is simply hard.
Despite these varied responses, hundreds of millions of people have been infected, many millions have died, and
