The pandemic is unleashing unimaginable tragedies on our society and around the world. Scientists are racing for a cure or a vaccine. Are we, however, looking at the broader picture, that the virus is a natural result of our manipulation of the environment to suit our needs? For two hundred years we have run roughshod over nature, damming the rivers, mining and burning fossil fuels, hunting the wildlife and substituting domesticated animals, tilling the soil without much heed to the natural forces which brought about those self-same environments. It's as if the very biological systems which have sustained and nurtured us over thousands of years are saying to us, enough is enough. Perhaps we are being told politely that we need to know our place. And what other surprises are there in store? To continue in the way we are doing is not going to work. Our choice is to continue to fight the forces of nature and attempt to control them or to live within them. Will our frantic race for understanding our relationship to this virus teach us that we all need to think and act differently and that we need to live with nature not at its expense? Only time will tell. We all have choices to make.