There’s a reason coronavirus doesn’t infect
polar bears.
To this virus, a polar bear is a dead end.
But humans aren’t polar bears.
We’re not that big, we don’t have fangs,
claws, armor, or venom.
Yet it’s our species who has dominated life
on Earth.
Because humanity is at its best when we band
together.
Our social nature is what made us.
What made you.
It’s why we exist.
It’s why we’re still here.
These chains of connection are why we laugh
and cry and teach and learn.
They helped our ancestors find food.
Raise their children.
Make tools.
Build civilizations.
But in this world, full of sickness, the same
chains that connect us also leave us vulnerable.
Because these infinitesimally small enemies
only seek to take another step, and another,
and another.
So to save ourselves, we untie these chains.
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And with each chain broken, with every bit
of social distance, we can prevent infection
exponentially.
Untold pain, fear, and death avoided.
To our ancestors, loneliness meant almost
certain death.
And they passed this evolutionary lesson to
us.
Loneliness triggers alarms.
Brain chemicals that push us to fight or flee.
Hiding away can cause us actual pain.
But there’s something we can do what the
sickness can not do, that makes our species
so special.
We can learn.
We use our tools to study it.
Where it hurts us, we heal each other.
And what we learn, we teach.
For our species has no greater advantage than
the sharing of knowledge.
And we have built other chains of connection
where the sickness can not set foot.
Our connection is not weakness.
It’s our strength.
Because when the virus is lonely, it dies.
We won’t be sick forever.
One day, when we reconnect our chains, when
the virus is gone, our humanity will ensure
that we are still here.
Stay curious.
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