Nothing has been the same and nothing will be the same since March 2020. Without a doubt, there is a before and after since the ‘bug’, as the damn Covid-19 is colloquially known, became part of our lives. None of our social relationships from before the pandemic have been left standing. And the worst thing is that, not even, it seems easy to recover some in the coming months. The scenario invites you to want to storm the heavens or the hells to get lost somewhere in the Universe where you can recover, at least, part of what we had.
The alternative is the bag or life. You go out to eat or you stay home and starve to death. If you choose the first option, the coronavirus, it can kill you; If you choose the second, you minimize the risk, but still, the coronavirus can also kill you. The setting is gruesome. While, in some way, life goes on and the maxim that the show must continue is not a metaphor. It is our modus vivendi . Isn’t it scary?
Ephemeral desires
Gone are those ephemeral desires to naively think that after confinement everything was going to change. Society, suddenly, was going to blend into a kind of solidarity all to change the way of understanding the world. I read astonished those reflections on Social Networks during the days of the State of Alarm. It was only comforting to think that there were still people left, with an iota of hope in the human species. Sadly, they were wrong.
Fear paralyzes and this society lives in fear of the uncertainty of a future in black and white.
The worst thing is that the human species has not been able to bring out its best face in these moments so, extremely, hard. We strive to appear normal when there is none. We insist on getting on with our lives when it is not possible to do so. And all to avoid adding more fears to those we already had before the pandemic. These are new times that we live with new fears disguised as an apparent daily life that is shocking.
Neither the WHO (World Health Organization), nor politicians anywhere on planet Earth have been able to cope with the pandemic. Paralyzed, like everyone else, by their fears. To which, naturally, they have added the panic of new fears that also reach high places. The uncertainty will kill more lives than the coronavirus. The logical concern for the “day after” avoids proposing solutions for today. The crisis is now!
The health and economic policies that are drawn thinking in an unknown scenario cancel the capacity for reaction, the involvement of the economic and social actors in a now chaotic, bleak, and, unfortunately, heartless. Not even science escapes. Pharmaceutical companies continue in their struggle to become number one in a career in which international prestige outweighs saving lives.
The new media messiahs acquire notoriety in times of crisis to provide content with an analysis of expressed reality. Do we think fast or do we think slowly? Perhaps it would be better to ask if we really think. If like this, we did it, everything would be different. I don’t know, if better or worse but, yes, different. Definitely.
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