My friends, most of you have heard this term: hurt locker. It means: a place of profound pain and deep discomfort.

And maybe you saw the film by the same name, so if you called up the image of actor Jeremy Renner in his blast-resistant suit making his way towards a suicide bomber, you have it about right.

That's where we are now. Except... few of us have the suit. Some of us are bare-assed naked. But the richest among us have bunkers in the mountains in New Zealand, or they own islands they can retreat to. We may have thought we had protection from the harm that is befalling us, but we are more vulnerable than most of us ever imagined.