LETTER: 2020 – The year to remember for the Covid-19 pandemic,
When a novel contagion triggered worldwide panic.
Misery caused to many countries and economies.
Infecting tens of millions and killing hundreds of thousands.
Besieged socio-economically have been governments,
Trade, jobs, businesses are the major casualties,
Emergencies, shutdowns and lockdowns have become the norm,
Brewing also around the globe is political tension.
An educative episode it's been for every human.
The message: Stop the wanton environmental destruction!
Climate change it is for now; unheeded, it'll be climactic rage!
If world leaders on their protocols and promises renege.
A scourge like this none since the dawn of civilization
Breakthrough vaccines timely rescued mankind's brush with extinction
Masks, quarantines, SOPs and frontliners aid the pandemic recovery
Will all be forgotten, and man continue living dangerously??
V THOMAS
Sg Buloh, Selangor