The AZ Republic is getting down to basics. "Mild COVID-19 is no joke." then - make your will as quickly as possible and a big pandemic with lots of deaths could be a really good thing for humanity over the next two hundred years, given the benefits that emerged from past pandemics. I definitely felt more cheerful after reading your editorials! And then the choice of letters! Sharp, succinct right to the point. Let's go to war with pathogens! They're the villains. Fight the nasty coronavirus. Into the trenches, sacrifice...the spirit of WW2...the Editorial Board has to be working overtime. You couldn't invent it.

FYI. COVID-19 is a logical, natural phenomenon, facilitated by increased populations of hominids as they push out into new environments, degrade and mismanage those environments, release vast numbers of new toxins as well as vast amounts of trapped carbon dioxide into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels. Why on earth should we all be surprised? This is our future. We could have listened to the scientists or instead perhaps we just need to learn to die gracefully. Our oil companies invested 7.2 trillion dollars last year in oil and gas extraction!!!