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9. What can I do to help my co-workers, both personally, spiritually and professionally?
10. What habits can I change for the betterment of myself and others?
11. What are the signals of forthcoming pandem- ics and how can we prepare for and avoid them, as much as possible?
12. What do we want future generations to know about the COVID-19 era?
13. Are we mature enough to confront these changes for the better?
The answers to the above questions can be readily an- swered under one condition only: when we begin to think of each other as “we,” not “I” or “me.” No one can exist in isolation, and what affects one person has an impact on multitudes. It takes only one person to spread the pan- demic, whether that person has an active case of the virus or does not have any symptoms at all. One negligent act or one responsible deed can make the difference between life and death. Think about it. The cause of pandemics is hu- man indifference to each other and all living beings.
Pestilence is God’s call to action. It is not that God wants to hurt our planet’s children. The Creator is crack- ing the whip because we are not following the right path. In the COVID era, we have had more time on our hands to contemplate the world, to stop and be kind to each other, to cease all feelings of anger, greed, control, and resent- ment, and replace these emotions with love, compassion, acceptance of one another, tolerance, and kindness—each one of us as an extension of God’s hand, as the Almighty created us to be.