Post by account_disabled on Mar 4, 2024 19:54:36 GMT -10
January 1, 2020. While the whole planet, unaware of what awaits them, celebrates the new year, in Wuhan, China, the hundred days that shocked the world are beginning: on the eve of the New Year, the Chinese authorities inform the WHO that in that city there are cases of pneumonia, of unknown origin. In that moment, our lives change like we never imagined. Today, on the 100th day of the emergency, we count one and a half million infected, 90 thousand dead and half the world's population locked at home. When we saw the first "exotic" pictures of Chinese people wearing masks, we thought: it will never come to us.
Today we go to the supermarket protected Cambodia Telegram Number Data as in a bacteriological super war, and we are almost no longer impressed. Now even meeting with elbows, a first alternative to shaking hands and hugging, has quickly become taboo because it violates that invisible barrier that surrounds us in a perimeter of one meter. The return to normality is a distant mirage, at least as distant as an effective vaccine against the coronavirus, that is, not earlier than a year. In the meantime, experts tell us, we should give up populated places, stadiums, concerts, congresses, cinemas.
We will return to travel, but we will have to see how airlines and railways manage to secure revenue, guaranteeing distances on board (ie two-thirds less passengers). Smart working, video conferencing and remote lectures will be the norm. Another world, after only 100 days. Never in human history has such a radical change come so suddenly. We know the reason: In the past, viruses traveled in caravans, ships or at most trains, today they travel in business class. Within a few weeks, Covid19 from China jumped to South Korea and then to Iran and Europe, until it arrived in the United States, which today is the most affected country with more than 451 thousand infected.
Today we go to the supermarket protected Cambodia Telegram Number Data as in a bacteriological super war, and we are almost no longer impressed. Now even meeting with elbows, a first alternative to shaking hands and hugging, has quickly become taboo because it violates that invisible barrier that surrounds us in a perimeter of one meter. The return to normality is a distant mirage, at least as distant as an effective vaccine against the coronavirus, that is, not earlier than a year. In the meantime, experts tell us, we should give up populated places, stadiums, concerts, congresses, cinemas.
We will return to travel, but we will have to see how airlines and railways manage to secure revenue, guaranteeing distances on board (ie two-thirds less passengers). Smart working, video conferencing and remote lectures will be the norm. Another world, after only 100 days. Never in human history has such a radical change come so suddenly. We know the reason: In the past, viruses traveled in caravans, ships or at most trains, today they travel in business class. Within a few weeks, Covid19 from China jumped to South Korea and then to Iran and Europe, until it arrived in the United States, which today is the most affected country with more than 451 thousand infected.