United in battle

Dear Editor:

You are in a war with an unseen enemy!

The president of an African country made a great speech recently (I will use bits of his speech). He showed that we are at war but it is with an invisible (but real) enemy called COVID-19.

He said in a war, as the bullets are flying, you do not object to  keeping indoors! Nor do you send your children to school. Nor do you even decide to go to work. You choose to win instead, for you know - only together can you win.

For your enemy  shows no mercy, he does not discriminate. So you must cooperate with others in order to beat the enemy, together.

If a spy should give you the enemy’s secret weapon, how you’d plead for it. Yet you do have it!

This  invisible enemy secret  is this: your enemy can be defeated. It is so simple you won’t believe it’s true: by cleaning your hands, hiding your nose with a mask and leaving a small space between you and others.

And yet some of you will not  even cooperate even if it means your own survival. You are “your brother’s keeper” – you need to realize that in this war. You need your brother just as much as he needs you!

Only together will you be able to celebrate a new day.

Sytske Drijber, Rockwood