The worst may not have hit; stay tuned, embrace the new world

Tanzanian performing artist Alex Kalemera (right), also known as Tanzania Joker, helps a food vendor to wash her hands with chlorinated water as he raises awareness against the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus at Kinondoni Manyanya market in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on April 2, 2020. PHOTO | ERICKY BONIPHACE | AFP

We have all been sobered by the optics of what has transpired in New York, Italy, Spain, France, the UK and elsewhere with the terrible toll in human lives inflicted by the coronavirus pandemic.

The good news out of Wuhan displaying a jubilant nation emerging from total lockdown emitted rays of hope, but the predominant mood was still one of gloom and dread.