The situation we face with this, now endemic virus, is a contemporary, living embodiment of an age-old allegory.

This lesson is illustrated and preserved time and time again across cultures, in the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita, other religious texts, mythology, literature and film.

Modern movies like "No Country for Old Men." Songs like Rush's Free Will: "If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."

The allegory of meeting your fate, your responsibilities, and your death.

Fate will meet you whether you choose to try to run and hide or meet it head on.

Control of one's destiny and legacy require the courage to face it.

Individually and collectively, we are soiling our legacy to try to pursue an easy way to opt out, an injection, a pill, a quarantine.

Our immune systems are a record of the physical triumphs of our species. We are here because our ancestors faced their fates, responsibilities, and death, propagated, and allowed another generation to fight for the next.

Where are we headed if the current generations stop fighting for the evolution of fitness?

Will there be a sufficient number awake or awakened to carry on, and reluctantly fight to meet destiny as Arunja was destined?