Pandemic in different era are deadly that ravaged the humanity, killing the world's great number of population – no age, gender and rich. Among them were the Spanish flue, the Plague, Yellow fever, AIDS and now COVID-19. People who survived from the past pandemic told their accounts that we know today, and you will come to think how the people from the past who had no advance technology dealt the pandemic. And the pandemic today is like past famine in our old times that starved many families.
The pandemic that we have seen in our very eyes is trauma/nightmare that will haunt us. The many faces we see, covers with facemask to filter the air we breathe – is the picture of pandemic. The faces behind the mask, the sad stories of orphaned, the tired front liners, the scared people, and the infected – they are the faces of pandemic. I was infected, and while completing my quarantine in the isolation room, it seemed that there is a wide white screen in my room flashing the scenes from the outside world that flash one by one. Different scenes: people in need of oxygen tank, the sufferings of the intubated people, the frightening rising number of cases, and the death tally. There are the difficult, painful and inspiring struggles of the survivors, the victory of recoveries, the dropping of stocks at closing, and the most sought search of the cure – these are the pressing stories on the top of our head.
We’ve been gone a long way. Mutation repeats. Omicron overpowered Delta variant. I really don’t know where I got covid but one thing for sure, I don’t blame to whom and how I got it because I’m somehow feeling guilty if I have infected others. Throughout the heights of covid, I have been carefully behind my facemask whenever I am out with other people but the thing is, it is inevitable and yet we need to meet people. For one thing it is good that I am fully vaccinated when I contracted covid, should it happen a year ago could be different journey. While isolated and quarantined, one of my realizations is the span of life. In the last two years, many of our relatives and people we know have taken from us. We are now in time that to live up to this date is blessing.
There are so many memories happened. Times may have passed but there are many signs that will remind us of the pandemic. The facemask will remind us of the pandemic we went through. The symbolic face of pandemic is the facemask. It symbolizes what has happened to us. It signifies our desire and eagerness to live, it metaphors our shield to battle and survive, a tiny piece of cloth that filters the air we breathe, serves the thin wall that blocks us from invincible foe. Our generation is the living witness of this great pandemic. Every one of us has the first-hand accounts, testament, experience and story to tell to our children up to the children of our children. Ten or fifteen years from now, we will tell them what they have read in their textbook in their school. It will be nice story-telling what we did to survive.
Today, the world is still battling COVID-19 to end or contain the very least. We have witnessed when the whole world stopped, silenced and mourned because of COVID. We have witnessed how life is in a pandemic. We have experienced the sadness and fear how to survive. We became familiar with mental health and witnessed the politics in pandemic. Many things were set-aside to deal the pandemic. Many have lost their jobs, loved ones, hope, and future. It made billion of money lost. As of today, it has recorded 320 million cases with over 5 million deaths worldwide. The effect of this pandemic is huge and lifetime. Many have changed their life to adapt the effect of pandemic. Our plans are align with it. But in all of this, did the pandemic effects people to make them kind? We have come to this far, we should have our take away how the pandemic affects our life.
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