The gambler has left the table, and a bug has called our bluff.

For fear of the virus, our global village abandoned our streets, shut down our commerce, schools and industry, and shuttered us inside our homes amid the concept of social distancing.

COVID played its card and we folded. An organism we cannot see that could potentially kill us called our bluff  – on giving in to the tug of tribalism, on continuing with our consumptive lifestyles – as individuals and as nations – whi...