The changes in our lives have become apparent, violence is in all the executive behavior around the world, it is as if no one is watching – from the behavior of the individual in  governments, to the individual on the roads, to the individuals at home.  

Now that the epidemic is beginning to wind down, we have to remember the warning of Thomas Hobbes about the reason we joi n together in government:  because we endanger ourselves on our own, and our lives become, as Hobbes notes: solitary poor nasty brutish and short.