In the beginning months of 2020, a little-known something being referred to as COVID-19 had arrived across many parts of our planet. As time transpired, it would be explained that COVID-19 was, in simple terms, another coronavirus that had been discovered in late 2019 in China, a coronavirus that was identified in 2019, hence the name COVID-19. This coronavirus would later be identified as a second mutation of an already known coronavirus known as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). This second mutation would take on the name SARS-CoV-2 and become synonymous with COVID-19. People getting tested for COVID-19 would be getting tested for the presence of SARS-CoV-2, with people saying things like, “You got COVID!?!” or “You got the Corona!?!”. However you wish to think of this, the fact remains true that daily life hasn’t been the same since the onset of this coronavirus.

There hasn’t been a unified stance across our nation with regard to putting an end to this COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2). Pose the question of “why?” and things begin to get personal, perhaps. How is it that an advanced nation such as the United States is unable to control such a situation?

What would happen if everyone bunkered indoors for “X” number of weeks? The cause and effect of everyone going nowhere for an extended period of time would be understood by all mankind for the sake of putting an end to this pandemic. So again, the question of “why” comes to mind, as in “why aren’t we doing this?”.

David Dubroff