Samenvatting
2020 has seen the prevalence of one of the most destructive global pandemics in the past 100 years. Covid 19 caused by the novel Coronavirus has devastated the entire world since its transmission from China. Since March 2020, people all over the whole world have been suffering and dying in huge numbers. This highly contagious virus has caused suffering and death, its consequences for families, and the powerful destruction of jobs and economies. Scientists seem overwhelmed by this virus, unable to know what to do to stop it. Pharmaceutical companies worldwide are rushing to produce a vaccine for Covid 19. However, as an RNA virus, Coronavirus is subject to inevitable mutation, possibly rendering any vaccine absolutely useless over time. The New Norm is a world of distrust, racial tensions and riots, and hurricanes and wildfires consume our world voraciously. We are being attacked from all angles by colossal debt, the complete destruction of many businesses and the prospect of vast numbers of evictions. The human condition has never been so challenged, and medical science appears totally unable to stop it. It doesn’t have to be this way, pulmonary surfactants may be our salvation.