Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Search for Understanding

Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemicis a series of essays intended to offer comfort and hope to people who are afflicted by the pandemic. It avoids statistics prognostications and finger-pointing. Instead it offers important insights culled from philosophy theology psychology and poetry which can inspire its readers to summon those inner strengths that enable them to cope with the various difficulties the pandemic poses especially confinement and the anxiety that is its inevitable companion. The book emphasises the importance of the individual but also that of social networking through the telephone email and other media of communication. It is a search for understanding in the sense that we need to understand better who we are and cultivate the inherent virtues that keep us strong in the face of a great challenge.