CORONAVIRUS DIARIES 24.03.2020

WILL THE CORONAVIRUS BE THE CAUSE OF THE END OF HUMANITY?

This pandemic showed us the the apocalypse is not far away us. Today the world population is growing by 200.000 person per day. Hence the actual loss of 17.000 in 3 months must not really frighten us. But today 1 billion people stayed at home confined to prevent the propagation of the virus.But they did not stop eating neither heating their homes, washing their cloths...On the other hand we did not use our car neither used the public transportation. Couldn't go out for dinner, neither wedding parties was held...

Not all these people were retirees thus we must admit that there has been an important loss of the actual workforce entailing loss of income. How long we can stay at home? The Wuhan experience is 50 days. In China this is much easy - we know the extreme working conditions and miserable life style - but when it comes to the western world 50 days is very long time. 

Flights came down to one tenth , tourism is in its historically worst situation but there are billions of people making their living with these activities. The cost of the petroleum oil is higher than the actual cost of mining . We have to take into consideration the plummetting consumption which will squeeze producer countries .

Actually the food chain is working satisfactorily.. We see the shelves full in our local groceries..God forbid if this supply chain slow down people will start hoarding which will bring the scarcity of foodstuffs.

The decrease of the incomes will force people to spend less, avoid any kind of indulgence , luxury goods will be unnecessary .

Today the main aim must be to keep the food  supply chain working. For those who live in large cities they have no chance for farming . They either have to move to the countryside or find a labor which can be done at home.

How long you can keep children inside of our homes? How we will continue to educate them ?

Until these people who lost their job find another way for making their living governments have to finance them. Budgets are already upside down. But we can not leave them to starve. 

Without tax income , pension of the retirees are at risk. 

It is time to rethink all the humanitarian system from the beginning... 

Avram Aji

24.03.2020

CORONAVIRUS DIARIES 23.03.2020

Today is 23rd of March 2020.. This will be my 3rd confined at home... Obviously it is not easy to be adapted to live in a small area. Thanks God I have a lot of hobbies and up to now I think psychologically I am fine. 

I have started to think about what are today's outcomes of this pandemic.

1)The world is not as big as I was thinking. A malign virus , despite various preventive actions can travel all around the world within 3 months. 

2)I was always imagining that the actual level of the medicine of the world is such advanced that any single new born disease can be controlled by scholars , pharmacology industry is so advanced that they can find solution swiftly.

3)We are accustomed that mostly babies and children are the most vulnerable to diseases. But this coronavirous proved the  contrary. 

4)Giant companies like airlines, petroleum refineries , car factories , hotel chains are more in danger than the small ones when a worldwide issue occurs. I do not want even to think about the losses they incur daily...

5)Retirees are  the least affected of this pandemic -although dying more than youngsters. Surely staying at home is quite boring and depressive but you do not much think about on how to make a living...Children already are grown up and you do not have much responsibility beside your partner.

Avram Aji

23.03.2020