THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC CHANGES OUR WAY OF LIFE

                 

Early Photo of the John Hopkins University 

The coronavirus has infected more than 800.000 people and killed over 37.000 worldwide, according to the John Hopkins University and the World Bank.

More than a quarter of the world’s 7.8 billion people are now shut up in their homes, as governments enhance their obstructions on social contacts in an effort to annihilate the deadly virus.


The USA have 173.741 cases and 7.433 deaths (time bomb), Italy 105.000 cases and 12.428 deaths, Spain 95.000 cases and 8.189 deaths, China 83.000 cases and 3.035 deaths, Germany has 61.913 cases and 585 deaths, Iran has 44.550 cases and 1.898 deaths, France has 44.550 cases and 3.025 deaths, the UK has 25.150 cases and 1.705 deaths, Switzerland has 16.176 cases and 378 death and Belgium has 12.775 cases and 705 deaths.  In Greece, we have 1.314 cases and 49 deaths,


New York is the city hardest hit in the USA.  Hospitals are brim-full, parks are turned into hospitals with the help of tents. A medical warship with 1000 beds has sailed to New York to help out with the pandemic. People are terrified not only of the virus but also of a lack of money due to this terrible disease.   

In many parts of the world, borders are closed, airports, places of worship, hotels, and businesses are shut, and schools are cancelled because lessons are done through the internet.  The unprecedented measures are splitting the social structure of some societies and disrupting many economies, resulting in mass unemployment and raising the possibility of widespread hunger.

Unfortunately, nothing is certain.  Analysts insist that the pandemic and the measures taken to save humanity from this disease could change our way of life permanently.  The ways we work, study, worship, and play.  We sincerely hope that the post-pandemic world will change for the better.

    

The World Health Organisation and the Centre for Disease Control insist to wear masks only if you are sick or if you are caring for a coronavirus patient.   The two organisations reaffirmed that they do not recommend the general public to wear masks, as they must be kept for medical staff who are working constantly risking their lives in order to help their patients. We deeply admire and esteem the doctors and nursing staff for their bravery and resilience. 

We also pray and hope that the world's scientists who are trying, incessantly, to discover a vaccine and antidote against the virus, will be successful very soon.  COVID-19 is not invincible!!

Red Chrysanthemums by Claude Monet