The good that arises from the ashes


I SEE similarities between the current Covid-19 pandemic and another incident that, for a while, seemed to threaten the world: 9/11.

I remember for a few days after the airplanes crashed into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon on Sept 11, 2001, millions of us lived in fear of our world ending.

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