As of right now , the world is dealing with a deadly virus known by everyone as the coronavirus or COVID-19. It has deeply impacted the world as we get to see how many countries have gone into lockdown or have taken action in order to stop the spread of this virus. We can see people starting to panic buy and immediately emptying the isles of many supermarkets in order to be stocked just in case of a home quarantine bound to happen at any given moment. The way I am dealing with this is just by staying at home and not leaving at all that is unless my mom or aunt want to go buy products at the supermarket so we could be ready for the quarantine. I am sanitizing myself everytime or even washing my hands as advised by everyone. I can see how it has impacted my family living in the house because of their jobs. Recently, my aunt’s job has been closed for two weeks. My mother’s job has been closed for two weeks as well and my uncle who works in a restaurant doesn’t experience a busy day anymore due the restaurant only has the option to deliver or pick up. My cousin no longer has school but his school is taking the similar action of most colleges right now and that is trying to work with online classes. I am very confused as to why people are buying toilet papers, I have seen people literally fight over toilet papers and yet I have not seen a logical reason behind this. Right now I am getting all my news from social media and my family that live with me since they watch the news a lot. The thing that has shocked me was that Italy has tallied more than 793 deaths in just one day and this has happened recently and this record is more than their previous tally which was roughly about 400 deaths in one day.
Reading the article based on the coronavirus was all new information to me. I found out that the coronavirus is part of a family of 6 other common viruses and this is the first to have an immediate impact on humans. I found an interesting fact in the article which was the fact that people would have had this virus before it even became a big problem. The journalist explains how it would have been difficult to detect due to having a lack of surveillance on the coronavirus. I also found out that this virus is known to emerge around the winter time just like the flu or even influenza. Besides this, this type of virus needs a body in order to thrive because in the article it states how it can be easily killed off if it were to be in cardboard, steel or plastic.
