Русский COVID-19 has the world quaking, and because it is an invisible threat, the terror it has struck in our hearts shows no sign of abating. Up to now, humanity has achieved prosperity and progress at an accelerating pace through an ongoing process of discarding the invisible in favor of the visible. Drunk with this success, we have taken to slighting that which cannot be seen and endlessly pursuing that which can. But now we find ourselves forced to directly confront the invisible in the form of the threat that has suddenly bared its fangs against our species. Dismissal of Existential Troubles