I find it strange to look back on all of this, to try to understand the situation with a bit of perspective. So far as I know, this whole situation is down to one person a few months ago in China, doing what? Eating bat soup or something equally trivial? And the end result will be thousands upon thousands dead, economies crushed (with all of the job loss, foreclosure, depression, etc., that entails), political futures made and destroyed, a new disease perhaps permanently with us bringing permanent changes to our respective cultures.
It's hard to know what to take seriously in a world that is so fragile, with lives that teeter on the very edge, not through any choices we personally make, but on the basis of incidental choices made by others we'll never meet, worlds away. I'm not religious, myself, but I understand the appeal: there ought to be some meaning to this madness.