Thank you, Mother Nature, for gathering us all together under one common threat to bang us over the head with another of Nature’s painful lessons. The lesson that comes to us under cover of the COVID-19 pandemic is that our human race, all 8 billion of us, is now more tightly bound together than ever before. Compared to a century ago when the flu pandemic claimed more lives than this one will, we are now more tightly bound by travel, communication, shared news, the internet, and the global exchange of things. What touches some of us now, even sneaky viruses, may touch all of us. In the balance, I think this is good news, if we can learn to understand it.