This could be how humanity ends: a stealth, highly contagious, mutating airborne virus wafts quickly across the land, wreaking havoc on the health, financial and social well-being of all in its path.
The new plague is deliberately ignored by an incompetent leader with magical thinking who denounces the hastily erected policy firewall constructed out of science by local leaders and healthcare experts and fortified by the good grace of strangers.
The connective tissue holding the body of humanity together against the novel coronavirus and the accidental and intentional ignorance feeding it are the first responders, the nurses and doctors, the healthcare assistants, and the frontline workers ensuring the spaces people inhabit are safe.
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