My COVID 19 Journal: Entry #1
30th June, 2020 This virus is all over the world. It’s not going away. It will be a part of our lives from now until somehow we can find a way to eradicate it. We haven’t eradicated the flu in hundreds of years. I have little hope for the COVID-19 being eradicated. So each year there will be casualties. Each year there will be a fresh surge of the virus. The question is - will it still be a pandemic or will it be restrained to an epidemic? Or locally contained? It’s a new virus. There may be a few people living who went through the Spanish Flu of 1918 to tell us what it was like. Pictures and movies may have captured some of life as they knew it then. Even so, it wasn’t a global pandemic such as this is. Since then, we’ve had a World War, and multiple advancements in every aspect of life. We’ve had countries born. We’ve been to the moon and back. We’ve seen the rise of international terrorism. The computer is now an ubiquitous part of our lives. We’ve even learnt how to deal with sca