Today, WHO declares COVID-19 as a pandemic. In the past two months, it was called outbreak and epidemic. During today’s lab meeting, my supervisor suggested us to work from home and minimized public appearance.
I never felt my life is so valuable as this moment. Keeping healthy is one’s best contribution to the world. Medical resources, facial masks, hand sanitizer, disinfection gels may be more precious than designer clothes. Money can’t garantee a medical care chance. Due to overloaded hospital capacity, Italy implemented war-time triage medics deciding who lives, who dies and who gets access to the limiting number of ICU beds. An even worse news is this is just beginning and the disease has a long life.
I pay my tribute to medical staff who are fighting at the front-line. In China, doctors and nurses from other regions went to support Wuhan hospitals, the epicentre of COVID-19 in China. I read a story that, a former nurse in Italy, now a full-time mother, decided to go back to hospital to fight with the virus.
Science and humanity are two factors driving human progress. While the researchers are working around the clock to develop the vaccines and treatments, showing compassion, pity and love are the only virtues that common people can do.
I will try to stay positive.
