SARS-nCOV-2 Is Bad, But Let’s Not Forget Our OTHER Enemy

The world of microbes and their intense battle with humanity is not coming to an end anytime soon.

Un less of course you’ve been living inside of a cave in a remote section of the Brazilian rain-forest, you’ve likely heard of SARS-nCOV-2, the new novel corona-virus that is making its rounds. The corona-virus family is certainly not one that should be taken lightly, and is responsible for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS), as well as Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS). Today it is with great grit and empathy for the lives lost to this virus that we can actually be thankful. We have been fortunate in the years past to have more dangerous viruses that have put us in danger be less contaminate than this new novel corona-virus. Ebola, SARS, MERs, etc., would have definitely been a lot scarier than SARS-nCOV-2 on a global pandemic scale.

While this new corona-virus is certainly dangerous, it could have been substantially worse.

We got lucky.

It’s hard to think about a potential situation and delegate resources towards that situation when the situation either doesn’t seem likely, or has not happened yet. There are definitely some key takeaways for first world countries in this pandemic, and…