Risk or Die
Once upon a time, a woman risked her life to have a child. With no medical equipment, doctors, nurses, or even clean water, she lay down in a hut and offered the possibility of her life in exchange for the possibility of our collective future. In times past, child-birth entailed the very real risk of a mother losing her life. And yet, that risk was taken. Our existence depended on her choice to take that risk. Without her choice, we would not exist at all and human life, with all of its joys and sorrows would cease. In a very real sense she gifted us the future by risking her life. For all of human existence, we have had to navigate risk. For living itself requires risk. We are now faced with a deadly risk. A disease that has no cure and no vaccine. This is not new to humanity. We have lived with multiple, deadly diseases that had to cure and no vaccine for many thousands of years. Living and dyin...