The nation is in the grip of a deadly wave of Covid-19. It surreptitiously pierced the flimsy sheath of our alertness, tore asunder the bulwark of human discipline and preparedness, tossed its hapless victims like fragile twigs in a rampaging hurricane, engulfing the entire society in unprecedented misery, helplessness, disease and death. The pall of utter gloom and despair it has cast is too dark and heavy. Indeed, it has not been an ordinary wave but a devastating tsunami.