WHO, What Where When, How

A query not by necessity in that order, class

but you are well advised to pay attention.

The what remains uncertain beyond it being

a zoonotic leaping from animal to human.

Where it emerged is well known but one is

not to place blame on its point of origin lest

one give offence to a powerful political regime.

When it emerged alerting medical professionals

to the presence of a new, raging threat to global

health prompting them to inform their peers

their voices were stilled under threat. And

because we live in an interconnected world

of globalism where social movement and trade

tourism and business intersect to profit the

world economy transmission of a little-understood

and often deadly pathogen was achieved. Into the

fray stepped the prestigious world body dedicated

to global health declaring the newly-revealed

threat non-communicable from human-to-human

and no reason to commit a racist act by closing

international borders to China. Now the global

community reels under a contagion refusing

control, asserting and reasserting itself. All

things considered whether the SARS-CoV-19

novel coronavirus emerged from a highly 

secret experimental biological-threat laboratory

in Wuhan or from a notorious wet market can

be assumed to be irrelevant as the world implodes.