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A world team effort

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Editor:

Just as we give our youngsters time out to calm down and reflect upon their behaviour, perhaps the Universe is giving us a time out to reflect upon our behaviour towards our home, Mother Earth.

As horrendous as the virus COVID-19 has become, our worldwide slowdown has pointed out to us that indeed we can and are working together as a world body. We have been making things happen quickly in real time; we have been using our amazing imaginations to stop this virus. Each one of us is contributing.

One of the unintended good side-effects of our actions has been to contribute to the air becoming cleaner. See, for example, before and after satellite images of parts of China. Amazing. Think what we could do to clean up our environment if we just kept going, working as a world team.

COVID-19 is showing us how we are working together quickly to make things happen for the good of us all. When we get this virus under control, we could continue to operate as a world team to clean up the mess we have made of our earth. There is a lot to do and I say we really are up to the task.

We could make a lasting legacy to all those who have lost their lives to COVID-19.

Vicki Tyndall, Sechelt