Above all else

I haven't ever read so much news about the same thing.  All day, every day, Covid this, Covid that.  Impact on credit markets, commodities markets and stock markets.  Impact on jobs, work-from-home arrangements and furloughs.  Impact on exercise, toilet paper and haircuts :)  I understand.  I guess a lot of journalists are confined at home, having no opportunity to investigate anything else, so... y'know.  Covid XD But if there's something that has struck me more than the health policies, economic fallout, and social dynamics of this event, it's that crisis crystallises love, or in some cases unfortunately, its absence.  Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest a rise in domestic violence - turns out some people were really only tolerating each other in absentia.  Scuffles over things from toilet paper to bubble tea imply that a "every man for himself" mentality has taken hold of us. This isn't meant to be a criticism of the foregoing behaviour - I'