Coronavirus is all about human connectivity. From a philosophical perspective, I’ve been thinking about how this virus is forcing us to confront our common fate, highlighting our connections in the process. The novel coronavirus defies geography and national borders. There is no escaping it – exactly because humanity is inevitably interdependent. In a beautifully emotive poem called Bani Adam (humankind), drafted in the 13th century, the Persian-Muslim polymath Saadi used what can be employed as an analogy to our current challenge in order to visualize this common constitution of humanity. It reads: Human beings are members of a whole,in creation…