It's Not Necessarily So

But rather of necessity. We are equipped

with certain emotions for a reason not

merely because they make us human

but because they protect our humanness.

So that famous old adage so smugly

trotted out at times of viral public concern

that There Is Nothing To Fear But Fear

Itself is just that; smug and trite when

indeed there are times when the very fact

is fear prepares us for the need to guard

ourselves from what may conceivably be

certain doom. Nature gifted us with a

sense of caution that fear electrifies

warning us of impending danger. As we

evolved so did the world we live in; as

threats from predators in the wild alarmed

and taught us vigilance and discretion in

our movements to the present when civil

life in our modern era is brought to a

screeching halt with the sudden presence

of a silent deadly biological threat unseen

but lurking as a sinister infection whose

purpose is invasion and replication, in the 

process far outdistancing any threat from 

marauding wildlife yet in fact an infectious 

agent of wildlife that humans hunt to consume.

The dread that now consumes us is fear.