Over the past 12 months, the status of humans on planet Earth has changed dramatically. The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, has, at the time of this writing:
- infected over a confirmed 121 million people worldwide,
- resulted in the deaths of at least 2.68 million people,
- and presently has over 20 million active infections,
with the United States of America leading the world in all three statistical categories. The year 2020 marks the first year since 1947 where 1% or more of…