If you have been having any form of radiostation, newspaper or television on over the last two or three weeks, it has been inevitable for you not hear about the corona virus. Or better detailed the 2019-nCoV or Wuhan strain of the corona virus, because the other coronas...yeah those are different. But anyhow: big news
This week the whole situation has been annoying me for a bit. Because as a person in healthcare, even we don’t have really any kind of information on what, how or how the situation is. And that is because I have the feeling that nobody really knows.
It is the good and the bad about the current times of the interwebs. On the one hand information that hasn’t seen daylight finally has options to come out, but on the other hand, are things sometimes exaggerated? Because when I see my former neighbor posting about this every second while she is still living on a remote island, I really have the feeling that the reliability about this information might be a little less accurate than when one of my friends who studies infectious diseases talks about this. But at the moment, nobody is really talking, or is talking too much. So what is reality then?
So yeah infections are indeed spreading across the world, but to me the question is more. What kind of infection is this really? Because yeah, what maybe 200 people have died from it? Well that happens with the flu every year, and more than anyone ever cares about. But now with this strain all panic is loose? But with what I tend to hear with this amount of infections (which I find not much), and the measures of cities in lockdown and temporary hospitals? It doesn’t add up to me!
So then the question rises, what is the truth in this one? And on that...I think the answer isn’t clear at all as yet. Too fast of developments, not good enough communication between country, and the people either having the option to spread the panic too much, or government still having the option to swipe it under the rug to prevent panic. The truth will be in the middle somewhere.
So while putting on S09 of the Walking dead (which wasn’t available in Switzerland even with VPN, first world problems ya know!) my mind always starts to wonder what will happen when such a threat would actually go through. Anarchy as I saw after the hurricane with everyone thinking only about their own asses.
Will the disaster preppers be the only ones who were right in the end? Well what I see since I got back in Holland….it is more crowded than ever. Which is still nothing compared to how loads of Asian cities are coping with their population problem, so where this is heading over the next couple of weeks?
