Taking this disease lightly serves no good purpose

It’s times like these that bring out the best and worst in people.

Unlike previous crisis, this one surrounding the spread of novel coronavirus and the disease it carries, COVID-19, has elements of politics mixed in. It also is fueled by the proliferation of social media avenues. Combine those two elements, and good information surrounding the disease is often drowned in a sea of at best misinformation and ignorance and at worse outright lies and deception.

Who benefits from this will be up to history to judge. But there are aspects of this outbreak that can be learned and benefited from right...