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Montgomery County Public Schools Special Needs Bus Attendant Bhavin Savla helps distribute bags of food donated by Manna Food Center at Quince Orchard High School as part of a program to feed children while schools are closed due to the coronavirus, in Gaithersburg, Maryland, on March 20, 2020. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images
Many have observed that a crisis often brings out the best in humanity. It’s a joyful, hopeful truism that has been proven out time and again. Indeed, one cannot help but wonder if we have an inborn need to take on and defeat the most frightening of challenges. There’s much in mankind’s history that suggests that’s the case.