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Reflecting On COVID

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  Dear Reader, Just hearing of the daily infection rate of COVID-19 is cause enough for me to believe this virus is a serious matter, but hearing this week the news of the first person that we knew - and knew well - who has died of the COVID-19 virus seems to make the matter strike home a little more. However, though it is a serious matter, it is only one of a number of issues of profound importance that have raised their head over the last few decades, and issues that seem to have escalated. Apart from Climate Change, epidemics appear to have increased. This time, COVID-19's tentacles have involved virtually the whole world. Should we believe that it's soon going to be over - that it's the end of all epidemics? Further, should we take stock and decide that there are things we all should do to stem this trend? It is interesting that about a year before COVID-19 raised its head, the WHO produced a report entitled 'Managing Epidemics' ( download here ) Written in lay