In my few years on the earth, I have “lived through” (indirectly) a number of pandemics and epidemics. I watch on the 6 o’clock news as some microbiological being rapidly destroys and causes havoc to a distant people in a distant country. That’s terrible, I would think to myself and maybe utter a word or two of prayer for them and that would be it. Such destructive, catastrophic event always happe