It is comforting that the Arizona Republic has become aware of the crisis posed by the new coronavirus and I applaud the efforts to inform the public. Bringing clarity to this problem, which might have been mitigated if our government had paid attention back at the end of December of last year, is laudable. You, like the government, however, are late on the scene. We have yet to fully experience the suffering Arizonans will go through before things get better. Our health workers will be on the front line. Some of them may get very sick. Some of them may even die. Some of this might have been prevented if we had had a government which put science above politics. If any good comes out of the suffering, could you now focus of the existential threat of climate change which undermines the very basis of our society? We may recover from this crisis but if we continue ignoring the problems climate change poses, we are all in for another crisis where we are forced to look at new ways which will enable some us to survive. Failure will mean catastrophe. Not "seeing" or not "understanding" will be no excuse. We should be listening to the scientists not the politicians.