"If it was a war that you could not escape, it was nevertheless a war that you had to choose to fight. And it is that which truly warrants describing 2020 as a crisis. In its original sense, crisis or krisis (in Greek) describes a critical turning point in the course of a disease. It is associated with the word krinein, which means to separate, decide, or judge, from which we derive "critic" or "criterion," the standard of judgment. It therefore seems a doubly apt phrase to describe the impact of a virus, which focused on people, on organizations, on governments at every level, all over the world, a series of huge and profoundly difficult choices."