Early on the morning of January 2, 2021, my husband, sister -in -law and I gathered at a strange place on the New Year’s Eve.
It was a gentle bright room in our local hospital’s intensive care unit, and this hour was close to 2 in the morning
We were there to say goodbye to our father -in -law, Joseph Saviya: a lifetime of Wuberin resident, hobbies Red Sox The fan whose devotion was lacking in equal.
He had taken CovidThe disease, which, according to the current estimate of the World Health Organization, found at least 30 million in 2020, and that Which now attributes more than 7 million deaths and counts.
A few years later, his wife, my mother -in -law, also died on January 7, 2022, while entering the hospital on January 7, 2022, and also died with Covade. I could not attend at that time because at that time, I also received it, sending my sanctions from afar, including my husband’s family via Facebook.
She loved the horror, mysterious and real crime. Joe and Ilyn Savia took four sons together, and during his death, more than 7 million sounds made two notes in a solid course. These were the sounds of lives whose last moments were soon launched by a virus so that they could replace the deadliest infectious diseases of history with HIV/AIDS, smallpox and bobunic plague.
As a journalist for me, Kovid represented one of these contradictory moments reporting about a devastating event, and changed his life permanently.
Five years after the spreading virus, the closure, the atmosphere of protests and the chaos and the fear of panic is not afraid and fear that Stephen King’s “The Stand” is a bit, Kovade remains among us.
It is a threat, especially for the elderly, for individuals with compromising immune systems, and for black and brown communities, inheritance of access to unequal health care that can set a person for chronic conditions for a lifetime, which makes them more risky.
And, this is a curious symbol, and telling the story of a familiar story: our quest to find the cause and treatment of a deadly illness, which often revolves around the confrontation between science and our own human nature.
I’m going to lay my prejudice card here. I grew up in a house in which science welcomed the guest, whether time, or circumstances.
My parents were both in nursing, which means especially the special presence of public health. Not only were his nursing magazines provided through subscriptions between magazines on our coffee table, but books about all the sciences, my father were especially interested in astronomy. And I became an eager lover of all creatures, not in four feet, six feet, legs.
In this way, my now living husband, Lawrence Keradini, And I was well similar to both poetry and science love and science, and before his death completed a doctorate in the Zoology.
And likewise, the desire to think of science as an ancient quest for knowledge, prejudice or politics is an ignorant. As Covid showed us, like AIDS before, it is not possible to separate science from politics.
Some of the disputes are essentially running on social media, where I talked about whether a boat boat may have been attributed to a pneumonia vaccine and I am not sorry.
Without a sick desire, I recently left a acquaintance who replied that he had stopped taking the flu vaccine during a “fake pandemic”. I just wish her for good health, and for anyone around me.
But my in -laws and about 7 million other people were not encouraged by this life by a large -scale psychiatrist through a plague -loving news media, whose professionals included me and my colleagues, who did a lot of work, who did a lot of work. Actual World epidemic.
I had covered the investigation into a very real real elderly care facility Where Kovid did a lot of collective care. The pandemic disease has really occurred, and the virus is really intact.
People who have been claimed and keep claiming are really gone. The place they left behind can never be filled, except for the memories of those who love them, and those who still love them.
The journey of science is an old and proportional, its tools are as good as people apply to them, and sometimes, a wrong result is part of this process.
In November 2015, I stood on the Mediterranean coast in Alexandria, Egypt, thinking about it AerotostinsChief Librarian of Alexandria’s Library.
He used a stick, shade and questioning mind to detect the original frame of the earth, and came on the correct answer. Probably so fantastic and necessary Claudius Tulami, Who concluded that the earth is the center of the universe, and although its idea is prevailing for more than a thousand years, it misunderstood it.
All of this tells us that the earth is round, and that a long accepted theory can be diverted over time when more information is available, the information provided by science and scientists. This is not a great, a timely revelation. This is a hardworking and sometimes traumatic journey.
In the last months of 2019, a new virus did not bring with it how it behaved, or how to live beyond. As a virus, none of it has any debt. With the help of science, it is up to us to know how to respond.
What we know about Kovide now knows that we have a great wealth of knowledge than that when the virus first started its deadly global journey.
As a human being, it is in our nature to want a solid and absolute leader to be directed, and promote his life. This can also help to shed light in the light of science: perhaps in many of our DNA traits, which have been handed over to us from our early ancestors.
They also looked at the heavens on top of them, the earth on which they stand, the creatures with whom they have a residence and each other, to better understand their world, and to keep the children happy, strong adults are capable of visiting uncertain place and time.
After thousands of generations, we can also dare to expect our ancestors as a beneficiary of more access to information, observation and collective experience.
It is our turn to build it. Let’s turn backwards, or do not disappoint the next generation. The earth does not turn like this. Nor do we need.
