Covid 19's unexpected messages

With all of the world on pause because of the Corona Virus, I have found a certain calm amidst the storm. To me the fact that the whole world has had to stop and focus only on the present is a very good thing. Slowing ourselves down to a halt begs the questions of why do we consume so much? Why do we think that we have to rush to jobs that slowly kill us every day? We cannot spend quality time with those we love. The media that we hate, we also worship. Everything we are about is screwed up in some way. We import so much from far away places, we neglect what is close and belongs to us. If we have straight hair we want curly hair. We contort our bodies into the latest fashion that we must have right now to outdo that person over there. It is insanity. I like the fact that how we proceed is uncharted. I like the fact that the situation is writ large and scary and devastating and we cannot miss it. The tragedy is obvious. There are people right now terrified that they can have it and can pass it on to someone and kill that person. There are people battling it right now who may not survive it. Yet, their sacrifice is not in vein. I think that everyone out there who is ill and those who are helping to take care of them is a hero. I have never really sat down and given thought to the levels of sacrifice, true bravery of human beings on such a scale. I have looked at many, many times in history where I have marveled at groups of people who have fought and died and individual people who have triumphed through immence pressures. I don't think that I have ever looked at every citizen on the planet that way until right now.