Letter: Disasters should serve as a wake-up call

With the coronavirus pandemic — sadly described as fluff by the “orange incompetent” — followed by our “moderate” earthquake of March 18 — my Tribune reading jolted by the back-and-forth rocking of my tenth-story condo — I am reminded of Voltaire’s revolutionary critical insight of the 1755 Lisbon 9.0 earthquake that killed thousands.From Wikipedia: “Voltaire’s ‘Candide’ attacks the notion that all is for the best in t