{"id":894,"date":"2020-07-01T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2023-03-14T23:40:58","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T22:40:58","slug":"covid-the-nemesis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Covid – The Nemesis"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Covid – The Nemesis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sneaking cautiously\nout of lockdown, which had kept us confined for a significant spell, the\nfeeling of abounding liberty was soon dispelled! As politicians grappled with home-made\nregulations, it became apparent, that we were being exposed to an experimental\nphase rather than tried and tested tactics. Statistics of apparent Corona\ndeaths seemed designed to maintain trepidation in the land. It appeared that\nanyone who met their Maker in the first half of 2020 had succumbed to the plague-like\nvirus, even though they were already predestined to surrender soon to another\nunrelated disease. It was also apparent, that some countries were far more zealous\nin testing for the virus than others. Thus, various widely contrasting numbers\nemerged, much like the Eurovision Song Contest, whereby the land with the most\npoints were by no means the winners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were warmly\ninvited to wear face masks in public, and re-inhale our own bacteria into our\nlungs and steam up our glasses. Unfortunately, someone in the parliamentary\n\u00abVirus-department\u00bb had forgotten to stock up on our vital reserve of face masks,\nso the law of supply and demand kicked in. The prevailing prices escalated to\nmilk the situation while the going was good. A dexterous doctor assured me that\nwearing a mask wouldn’t prevent anyone from infecting me, but I could contain\nmy own infections, and protect other people. That consoled me hugely. I felt caught\nlike a rabbit in the headlights when passing non-masked beings while I wore my\nmask like a badge of honour, purporting unrestrained self-righteousness. It\nseemed a trifle one-sided to safeguard the unknown person who didn’t care a jot\nabout detonating their virus at me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also had\nto maintain a 2-metre distance from the next person, which in terms of radius\nleaves one with a sizeable space to oneself – theoretically. It’s all rather\njolly, if we all move at the same pace and no one wants to stop in front of the\ncabbages, undecided as to which size to buy. Of course, the success of this\ntactic depended on everyone adhering to the same rules. It manifested itself in\npugnacious techniques as people tussled to pin down their perceived ration of\ntoilet paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nsinister truth is that (being politically correct), it probably came from China.\nWe have no idea how long it will outstay its welcome among us, and although we\nare vulnerable to it and could possibly host it, we can’t even see it. Notwithstanding,\nwe all had time to stand back and observe humanity at its best and worst during\nthis unforeseen pandemic. I simply stayed at home and tried to keep busy and\navoid watching my toenails grow. Yes, my life wasn’t filled with unbridled glee\nand fulfilment, but I am generally a contented person, and that didn’t change. I\nfirmly believe that Covid has been around and will remain among us for a long\ntime. Why some people die from it, some are critically ill with it, and others\nhave apparently had it without even being aware of it, is a God-given mystery. We\ndon’t need to embrace it, but maybe live a little more aware of life’s challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Covid – The Nemesis Sneaking cautiously out of lockdown, which had kept us confined for a significant spell, the feeling of abounding liberty was soon dispelled! As politicians grappled with home-made regulations, it became apparent, that we were being exposed to an experimental phase rather than tried and tested tactics. Statistics of apparent Corona deaths […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,186],"tags":[64,65,66],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-topics","category-covid","tag-covid","tag-lockdown","tag-virus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1890,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/1890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/humble-thoughts.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}