A crisis can create clarity and concentration, It can dispel tumultuous thoughts careening randomly within us and lead us to focus on the threat confronting us. We are, after all, a problem-solving species. A crisis can bring out the best or the worst, and sometimes both simultaneously, in us. The coronavirus pandemic is a snapshot of human response in crisis mode. Over a decade ago, a prescient article in clinical microbiology reviews explicitly warned of our current situation. In an article in 2007, titled 'Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus as an Agent of Emerging and Reemerging Infection'.