Life after COVID-19: Explore the changes that might not go away!
- Vicent Nemeyimana
- April 5, 2020
- Health-Climate Research, Thoughts and Opinions
Life after COVID-19 won’t be the same, never!
It beats my mind to see how the world has collectively come to agree to halt life; stop businesses, ban flights, close hotels and beaches and, yeah, ask everyone to stay at home.
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How come they (governments) have never asked us to work this hard to save millions of children who die due to hunger every year? How come no politician or business has ever been asked to change its operations or way of life to save the planet or reduce the incidences of obesity, diabetes, hypertension and cancers due to most products or behaviors of these businesses?
Unexpectedly, a virus (not even the most deadly one compared to our past) has changed our lives, from the topmost guy to the ‘least important’ guy in the society! What if this is not about coronavirus alone?
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Life after COVID-19: What might happen to us?
Businesses shall have rediscovered themselves and, having been exposed, will drop some operations and adopt new ones. Employers are starting to understand that actually some of the activities they employed for were not necessary.
So, even after COVID-19, some of us may not be called back for work since businesses will have forcefully innovated how to survive without us.
Socio-politically, maybe, people will pressurize governments to be proactive and decisive in addressing long-term deaths due to hunger, corruption, inequality and other diseases just as they have done with COVID-19.
We might be asked to cooperate and co-exist more than ever; after all, COVID-19 has shown us that none is safe if someone among us isn’t safe!
Governments might use this opportunity to extend their control over us since we have become less resistant to curfews, controlled movements and information, isolation, quarantine, banned assembly and socialization, all in the name of coronavirus.
Mostly, governments enjoy gaining control. For example, World Health Organization and CDC and all those organizations have recently controlled what information we post and or read. Facebook isn’t ashamed to mark your post ‘false’ or ‘fake’ if it contradicts with what the big guys say!
What if all of this are lies? What if it is the extension of control beyond coronavirus? What if one of the conspiracy theories behind coronavirus is actually true?
Basically, we have been forced to embrace digital money, embrace private cubicle life and not communal and be mindful of what we eat, where we go and then what we read. What if, even after covid19, governments find ways of extending the problem (after all, pandemics don’t end) and keep this control over our lives?
What if coronavirus is just an invented problem for a long-waiting solution? In the words of Charles Eisenstein, COVID-19 seems to be accelerating what was already here. The difference is we (masses) have shown no resistance to coronavirus guides, thus a win for the ‘big boys’
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In any case, I do not know anything. However, here is a fact: Life after COVID-19 will never be the same. We might get better or worse. Brace yourselves!
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