THERE is a bitter reality that we now confront. Lives and livelihoods are not the only ones lost because of the onslaught of the coronavirus disease 2019 or Covid-19. Many are also losing their sense of reason, compassion and humanity. For some, it even appears that these have totally died.
We see reason departing from the leader of the most powerful country in the world, United States President Donald Trump, when he suggested to look into the possibility of injecting disinfectant solutions into the body of a Covid-19 patient to kill the virus. Reason, and even a sense of humanity, also left the mayor of Las Vegas when she offered her entire city to become a control laboratory in an experiment to test the effect of not having a lockdown. And we thought the worst of human experimentation ended with the fall of the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler.
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