This chapter attempts to look at the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic affected the world. The discussions in this volume pay particular attention to the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic affected community mental health and the ways in which communities employed various ways to cope with its aftermath. The World Health Organization has invited all countries to reflect on the various issues that affected communities and for which we can learn to be able to counter future pandemics. It is now clear that COVID-19 had an immense effect on communities. During the COVID-19 period, many people were presented with the numbers that we were ready to lose to help return to normal. What these numbers did is forgetting that those who were lost in the pandemic were not just digits but rather human lives. This does not mean that numbers were wrong or right, but rather the presentation of the numbers of those who died from COVID-19 left no doubt that some lives were more valued than others. In this regard, this volume breaks from numerical quantification of human life to start not only qualifying the lives lost in ways that provide some form of accountability for the loss. This volume is, therefore, a reorientation of the models employed to flatten the curve. The volume recalls other ways of navigating the pandemic that were community-based. These ways that were employed by marginalized communities could help resolve any future challenges brought about by future pandemics.