We live in a fragile and uncertain world

I have every sympathy with Norman Wanstall's comments about the church's silence when thousands die due to the coronavirus (HT, May 21). The truth is that we have no answer. Viruses, good and bad, have been with us from the dawn of life. They are bound up with our origin and evolution and some are an essential part of our physical being. Sometimes we share responsibility for those which ravage human life because of our lifestyle and our exploitation of animals but we cannot escape the reality th