Humbling experience for mankind

HUMANITY is under siege. We are supposed to be living in a new Industrial Revolution. Billions of people are freed from the shackles of poverty to be in a better economic position. Individuals are making more money than sovereign countries combined.

There have been worse pandemics and epidemics before. And deadlier outbreaks too. Millions more have died because of contagious diseases. But none of those, however fatal they were, ever brought the world to its knees, literally.