I realise I'm in a small minority, but....
I see a rather different problem regarding our approach to this virus.
Why are we so concerned about it?
It does seem likely it will kill quite a lot of people. There are approximately 7.8 billion of us! We are hardly an endangered species.
If a billion of us died tomorrow would the world be a better or worse place for us and every other species on the planet?
The planet is massively overpopulated by humans and as a species we are arguably the most destructive.
Given we can't seem to manage our population it looks like nature might have a go at doing it for us.
It seems from the less hysterical reports that the virus is particularly dangerous for those with other health problems, heart conditions, lung problems etc. In Italy for example which has a large elderly population the death statistics are concentrated in this group.
Nobody lives forever. We are all meant to die.
While starvation and poverty kills millions every year, which we could greatly reduce with better wealth distribution, nobody seems to care enough to do very much about it because those with the power to make the changes don't care because it isn't happening to them.
The virus is different. It isn't just picking off the poor and disadvantaged.
Our species it seems, have become convinced through centuries of indoctrination that we are somehow special. Nature doesn't see it like that it seems.
Somewhere buried under all this is the problem of the view that human life is somehow sacred. That's what religion and arrogance does for you.
If the virus gets me and I die then I didn't pass the fitness test. Life will go on without me.
I believe this is called evolution at it's basic level.
