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What We May Have Failed To Notice About The Pandemic.
The novel coronavirus disease is dealing blows to the world at a rate everybody of this generation, and most from the ones before it have never experienced.
Personally I’ve always wondered what it feels like to live in a time of war, or just at a time of any event that threaten the life and safety of many. The world wars of 1915 and 1945 respectively, and the Nigeria civil war of 1967 were events I heard as stories, but with COVID-19, I have no doubt I may just be experiencing something similar.
The death and rate of spread of the virus are both alarming, they are almost tantamount to the ones reported in war times; but what I find all the more intriguing is how at a time like this many things tends to quickly lose their significance and matters little or not, at all.
Death and spread of the virus are terrible thinga we all agree with, whereas things losing their importance is clearly a blessing in disguise.
I'll tell you how.
At this point, not all the things that mattered pre-COVID-19 are still of any significant importance now, and there are many things in this category.
All of a sudden social gatherings, shopping, work and many other daily routines and activities we undertook, even without conscious thought, are no more…
