Reflections of the past turbulence on current global coronavirus

Smallpox pandemic, photo credit: the Social Historian

It’s clear and obvious that today’s younger generation had never experienced such a destructive nature of a deadly, and prolonged disease, known as the coronavirus, forcing people to stay at home, with anxiety, fear, and unemployment. 

The current crisis of the coronavirus, pertaining to infection, deceased, and healing, seems to bring to mind the harsh and bitter experiences of victims during the first and second world wars. 

It also gives us a comprehensive understanding of the terrible times people went through, during epidemics, such as the Spanish flu, influenza, cholera, and other deadly pandemics.

People think their freedom has been taken away from them because they have been forced to stay at home, can’t enjoy sports, visit the cinema halls, the restaurant, go to the football stadium and visit their loved ones. 

The question is do people have to be angry over measures that protect and guarantee their own safety against the deadly COVID 19? How honest and sincere are people? 

Let’s begin to think deeply if people are bitterly complaining about measures to avoid the spread of the coronavirus as stolen freedom. Decades after Germany was divided into East and West Germany, the iron curtain came tumbling down in 1989. 

The Germans were divided for 45 years and those trying to flee from the East to the West were shot down in cold blood.

Africans were captured and taken as slaves. Their homes were burned down, the people were divided and brutalized. The scars of colonialism and Apartheid, are still visible in Africa today.  After that Aids and Ebola have hit the continent killing thousands.

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