Has the virus come full circle?
By eileenleyva
@eileenleyva (27562)
Philippines
August 3, 2021 4:52pm CST
A year and a half ago, the world was shocked as Wuhan was put into a mandatory lockdown.
Secretive China never divulged the gravity of the health crisis but heartbreaking tales and images of the province showed:
- Dr. Li Wen Liang, the ophthalmologist who blew the whistle on the novel coronavirus 30 Dec 2019 and was arrested, himself contracted the disease and succumbed to it 7 Feb 2020.
- an emergency hospital built in nine days,
- ambulances in haste and people packed in hospital lobbies and corridors,
- body bags that needed to be transported to the morgue,
- crematories overwhelmed as the number of dead bodies piled up,
- etcetera.
The world watched on late January when the news broke out, that the contagion made it to Singapore, Korea, Japan, France, and the United Kingdom.
The cruise ships were not spared. Not even the battle ships.
An agonizing horror as Italy released photographs of the aged dead, including doctors and nurses who courageously attended to the morbidity of the situation.
Hit the west hard as the United States and Brazil accumulated a mortality rate that topped the charts a year after.
Surprisingly, while the world was in turmoil, Wuhan got back on its feet and celebrated. China never disclosed the true origin of the novel coronavirus.
Mocked neighbor India as the nation grappled with the deadly Delta Variant, a mutation highly transmissible.
The Delta Variant is currently ravishing Indonesia, the United States, India, and has threatened other countries such as my Philippines and the host of the Olympiad, Japan.
Yet, it is a truth that nature has a way of bringing back things to its owner.
Yesterday, news broke out again that Wuhan is in grave danger of repeating a grotesque scenario as the Delta Variant reached the province.
Though we do not wish ill on anyone, it seems the virus has come full circle.
Let's hope for a period there. Or an exclamation mark.
The Delta Variant has breached China's virus defences with 18 cities & 27 provinces reporting cases. #Wuhan is the epicentre once again with authorities plan...
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8 responses
@prashu228 (37526)
• India
4 Aug 21
Virus will never go away..its there before the covid and will be after...its just we have to learn how to deal will it..otherwise we will be at loss
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
4 Aug 21
Yes, the viruses will always be with us. That is why we should always maintain proper hygiene and sanitation.
@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
6 Aug 21
@Lindcurtins When I was a child, foremost in our school slogans is "Cleanliness is next to godliness."
Hygiene and sanitation is always a given.
I do not understand why many people are making an issue of the reminder this pandemia.
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@Lindcurtins (311)
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5 Aug 21
Yes, that's what I use to tell people
The virus has come to stay, we should all try to live with it by doing all that the ministry of health says we should do. Like washing our hands, sanitising our hands etc
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@cahaya1983 (11121)
• Malaysia
4 Aug 21
I read it too yesterday. Surprised to know about it because at one point things seemed to have returned to normal for them (or at least from what was reported). Unbelievable what the world is going through right now.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
4 Aug 21
Bragging is never right especially so when the source of the virus is Wuhan.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
5 Aug 21
@cahaya1983 Yup. I did see the videos also. In fairness, the residents of Wuhan are so disciplined. They are afraid.
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@cahaya1983 (11121)
• Malaysia
5 Aug 21
@eileenleyva I read today they're screening all 11 million residents there.
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@rsa101 (37933)
• Philippines
6 Aug 21
Very nice depiction of how all of this started. Yeah, I also heard that news last night that there was a delta breach in their country that is why they are doing massive swabbing activities they are doing in their place to be sure that they can catch if there is a virus on the loose of their places. I think that is the only way to really be sure to know if there is a local transmission but I know it is costly that is why we do not do that in our place. We only catch the variant when a patient complains and is swabbed that is the only time we know. And it seems there are many carriers that are asymptomatic where they do more harm to many.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
6 Aug 21
I didn't expect to make a recapitulation of the pandemic story a year and a half into the pandemia. Just that, it is interesting to see how Wuhan would behave after that inappropriate concert celebration that appeared numb to the predicament of the rest of the world.
Wuhan should have been more prudent and should not have shown arrogance considering the province is the origin of the virus. China has never apologized for putting the world in peril.
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@rsa101 (37933)
• Philippines
6 Aug 21
@eileenleyva Well, I see your point. That was irresponsible that they did that party but it is only after that incident that they are scrambling again upon seeing that the variant has somehow sneaked into them. We will see in the coming days how they will respond when there is an outbreak again in their place. But seeing how the government is responding seems that they know what to do when things like this happen. Swabbing is the easiest way to catch any virus on the loose. Our government is unwilling to do something because of funding and refusal to report that there is already a surge.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
6 Aug 21
@rsa101 Yes, if there is one thing admirable about the Chinese, they are disciplined and follow protocol.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
6 Aug 21
Never took viral infection seriously till the novel coronavirus created the pandemia. Yup, the virus will never go away any more.
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
4 Aug 21
A year and a half into the pandemic, there are still some who do not understand fully the nature of the virus and there are many who are in denial of the virus.
@Lindcurtins (311)
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5 Aug 21
@eileenleyva yeah that's very true. Expecially in some parts of Africa. Like Nigeria
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
6 Aug 21
@Lindcurtins My people only realized the importance of the vaccine a few days ago, when the government put us on another lockdown. The people cried in desperation for the vaccine, crowded in the inoculation centers mindless of the super spreader scene. I think they take the vaccine as a passage to get out. Lockdown in a small house with twenty or more people is more punishing for the,/
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@Deepizzaguy (94475)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
3 Aug 21
The old saying is true "It ain't over till it's over."
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@eileenleyva (27562)
• Philippines
4 Aug 21
That quote is philosophically correct. However, when it comes to a pandemia, the virus never goes away. All that can happen is the pandemic being reduced to an epidemic.
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@kaylachan (57599)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
3 Aug 21
Well that's just the nature of the beast. Viruses never really "go away" humans just adapt to them. We're animals after all and several of the fittest still applies.
