Exactly.
“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?” Mark 8:36
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Mark%208:36&version=KJV
there is nothing here worth keeping, except to shelter and protect your household.
Knowing we will re-emerge on the other side places it in perspective.
Faith and morals come before politics!