It has been 5 weeks since lockdown started, today, Saturday 18 April, 2020. Life of everybody has changed and it seems all will have to reboot our lives one way to another once we are allowed to carry out a “new” normal life.
The reality is that COVID-19 is very likely that has been in Europe at least since Autumn 2019, my daughter Ali got sick in early December and it was very rare and symptoms were very similar to those experienced with the virus.
Looking backwards and after several weeks in lockdown, there are several stages on which a human being goes through, today my believe is the following:
This starts in Autumn, 2019; virus is initially around and kids at schools catch the virus, some of they just get mild effects, some other have to stay away from activities several weeks, some even end up at hospital; a kid can take up to 3 weeks to be out of service (in other words, isolation), which means no school, no other activities but staying at home being cared by his/her parents; then a parent or sister/brother might get sick, again she/he can not leave home that means to stay (isolation) at home between 1-3 weeks; this happened during holidays season (December-January) therefore who is absent either on school or office is basically unnoticed. All the phenomenon went unnoticed.
The problem arrived when the virus reached people who are old (60+ years old), and those who have other health problems and those who live alone but have an active social life; these demographic groups are those who are not in close contact with kids so for the virus is easy to go straight into their bodies. Vulnerable people really get problems to cope with the virus and % of mortality is very high; while the others, lone people act just as transmitters, as even if they felt sick they have to continue with their life so transmission happened.
Looking at the scenario where the virus would stay around for the next 2 years, since the economy impact is dramatic, we all have to resume our activities in a “new” normal, so the way to resume our new way of life is in stages, in the same way as the demographics got impacted as described before, being the lone people (the transmitters) those who need to finish their lockdown in the last stage.
The way this situation has been handled seems like major manipulation, again, from social media and looking at the number of hack attacks all over the globe (I had two in one month), seems to me groups of people have been opportunistic. Either this has been The Biggest Fraud or mistake in 100 Years, and people should be prosecuted with crime against humanity, and people in Asia, Europe and America who suddenly became millionaires and billionaires in the last month should be investigated.
18 April 2020. Madrid, Spain.
