FAITH, THAT BRIDGE BETWEEN DESPAIR AND HOPE; THAT ETERNAL BELIEF THAT ALL WILL BE WELL

in morbid disbelief of what has happened to the world. The World Health Organization’s announcement on June 29 that the worst is yet to come, coincided with the global number of infections having gone past 10 million with almost 500,000 fatalities. It took three months to get to 2.5 million infections, an additional month to get to 5 million, 21 days for the next 2.5 million and finally 16 days for the last 2.5 million. There are a number of variables but it is conceivable that the world will have at least 5 million infections per week if a vaccine is not found fast enough. The other reality is that these are numbers based on what is being reported and the fact that testing is still