CORONA VIRUS & SOCIAL DISTANCING - THE NEW SOCIAL GLUE
The world is at war! Not since September 11, 2001, has any event, activity or phenomenon gotten the attention of the world as COVID-19 has. Not the global economic meltdown of 2008. Not the Syrian war which began in 2011. Not Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2014. Not Boko Haram’s abduction of the Chibok girls also in 2014. Not allegations of Russia hacking and influencing the result of the American Presidential elections in 2016. Not even the death of the king of pop - Michael Jackson in 2009! While the 9/11 attacks on the USA mostly only got the attention of the world, shaking her faith in humanity, and posing a scare of a nuclear war or possible WW3 if it was confirmed that the perpetrators were a band of rogue, apparently self-immolating countries; COVID-19 has gotten the attention of the world, and also for the first time in a very long time, united the world against a common enemy. This enemy is not a band of insurgents, or an opportunist military behemoth, or a