Covid-19: Are we listening?!

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readApr 2, 2020

An interesting question found on the Internet: Is the corona virus more dangerous than Hitler?

Well, so far, fortunately, the Coronavirus is not as lethal as Hitler.

On the other hand, the Coronavirus has a wider, global reach, basically attacking the whole of Humanity at once above borders, independent of nationality, religion, culture or social status.

I think what is even more important if we learn the lessons we can learn from the Coronavirus, as we haven’t learned the lessons we could from Hitler’s terror. We are still racist, and Nazism, negative nationalism is on the rise again only 70–80 years after the 2nd World War.

But maybe we are a bit wiser this time around, and even if the virus does not kill millions of people we can still learn that we are locked together into a single, integral and interdependent system by Nature’s evolution and we are responsible for one another whether we want it or not.

Thus we will solve problems like the Coronavirus and prevent similar ones in the future only together, rising above inherent differences, despite our instinctive mutual distrust, animosity, or we will self-destruct together.

As Jews will read, remember very soon during the Passover Holiday about the time they have become a Nation at Mount Sinai (Sinai means Hate), there they were told: “Either you pledge to become a united nation as one man with one heart, or this will be your burial place!”.

Today the whole of Humanity is standing around the “Mount of mutual Hatred” and we are hearing the same declaration from Nature.

Are we listening?!

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.