Decade 2020 - Humanity is our greatest strength
It has been a whirlwind of a year so far. Fear of the amount of death has led to the lockdown of most of the world. I was reading the article about the Virus that devastated the Roman empire through the Roman Army ( https://medium.com/publishous/the-virus-that-crushed-the-roman-army-f6754a062062 ). In it gives us one of the closes parallel to what is going on right now. It was a contagion that spread fast and kills close to 10% of the population. It spreads by close contact and usually spread by travellers to various towns and cities. Difference between then and now is that we actually have the technology, the science and the knowhow to do something about it. Trouble is what we can do about it also requires us to give up on some basic freedoms. Such as freedom of privacy, freedom of movement, freedom of association. We have to support those that are not as privileged as us. Some western countries do not have public health care systems in place. This means there will be many wh