Life after Corona

We are witnessing a war against a micro-organism holding to ransom the lives of the most advanced species on this planet. This alone can prevent the disintegration and degeneration of the social order and a return to a 'state of nature' in which men's lives would be 'solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short'. This sounds so prophetic in the wake of this dreadful, near apocalyptic pandemic. The implications of having such an absolute sovereign in the helm of affairs, with the power to decide whom to protect and whom to punish, are indeed grave.