Unanticipated Victims

As the COVID-19 continues to develop in the now 37 countries who have identified it, there are over eighty thousand reported infected and nearly three thousand have died.  

Wuhan and other countries have put travel bans in place to attempt to moderate the spread of the disease.  The result is that the number of reported cases is slowing down.  So that is good.

Few realised that closing down cities would result in unanticipated victims.  While human life is of ultimate worth, there are pets left behind that can no longer be cared for.  

There are many times when we all find ourselves dependent on the kindness of strangers and this is one time when we can consider the value of having others to support us.

I thought this video was quite confronting, not only to watch this man's efforts to care for some of the animals of Wuhan but the dystopian starkness of a once-bustling city -- now a ghost town.