We are confronted with a cataclysm so destructive in the way it kills its victims and, most atrociously, the way it numbs entire economies, withers social transactions and maims business arteries. Coronavirus outbreak has meant a shutdown unseen in living memory.

Much is changing in our health domain on a daily basis in the past two weeks and in the days to come. Words and phrases used intermittently in recent days began coming at Rwandans in a dizzying fusillade: Canceled. Postponed. Scrapped. Stay home. Don’t come in. Don’t embrace. Don’t shake hands. Social distancing. Unprecedented. Crisis. Coronavirus has brought it all.

One of the greatest publishers, entrepreneur and lecturer of our times, Mark Twain, in one of his publications said: 'It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog that matters.’