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1. The great powers of the world have spent trillions of dollars to develop sophisticated weapons with improved killing power. They are sure that in a war they would be able to kill more of their enemies than their own warriors.
2. But as they produce newer and better weapons, their enemies come up with better defensive and offensive weapons. And more billions had to be spent to overcome the defence while new offensive weapons are invented, produced and deployed.
3. Already they are overjoyed with their capacities to wipe out whole cities and their inhabitants, including the babies who might grow up to become warriors.
4. The array of weapons is impressive. On the ground there would be tanks and armoured vehicles, rocket launchers and guided missiles of different ranges, radars and lasers and many others yet undisclosed.
5. In the air there would be a variety of war planes, some invisible to radar, equipped with rockets and missiles, manned and unmanned, drones, capable of taking out individuals or reducing to ashes whole towns. Satellites high above have eyes to detect ants moving on the ground, recognise faces with fantastic cameras.
6. At sea, new battleship carry all kinds of rockets, surface to surface, surface to air, short range, long range, invisible to radar, floating and submerged, manned and unmanned, nuclear powered and nuclear armed etc. etc.
7. They, the great powers are still researching, developing, training and arming, glorifying in their capacities to destroy their enemies and other collaterals.
8. More and more funds are allocated for upgrading the capacity to make this world uninhabitable by living creature. Each of these powers would be beating their chests like gorillas, roaring in their destructive and killing power. And still they would spend.
9. Then the enemy struck. The enemy had no weapons of any kind. But so powerful is the enemy that Kings and Presidents, Generals and strategists ran helter-skelter for refuge in their homes. They dare not come out.
10. All those powerful weapons afford them no protection. They are totally useless to protect their lives, their health and their wealth. Nowhere in the world can they be safe. They cannot even be near each other. They have to hide their beautiful faces behind masks. The ugly ones rejoiced.
11. And the enemy, which defeated these great powers cannot even be seen. They are so small that they can only be seen through a microscope. Yet, they can send the most powerful people shivering with fear.
12. That is the Nouvelle Coronavirus. It is capable of wiping out all humans in the world. The only defensive weapons are soap and water, gloves and mask, social distances, and stopping work and stopping making money. Many will starve to death as access to food is cut off.
13. The great civilisation we have built, the fantastic technologies we have developed, the great wealth of individuals, the luxurious life-style of private yachts and private planes, the palaces and holiday homes, the speed of travel, the connectivity, all these would change if not disappear.
14. A new life will develop, a life constrained by the fear of pandemics, the sudden painful death, the limitation on travel and holiday will replace the norm. In everything there will be new normals.
15. The enemy is microscopic but the effect is massive, more than the wars of the world. The great powers will be helpless before these microscopic creatures. Power no longer belongs to the rich and the developed. All those weapons of mass destruction cannot match the destruction by these microscopic creatures.
16. There is definitely a lesson to be learnt here. What the lesson will be is left to each and everyone of us.
