Dear readers,

today by far a bit more than one year is spent from the COVID-19 outbreak, a deep chance of habits among us human has occurred even we did not want it by any means.

One year ago, myself was just back from my last overseas travel to Asia and yet I was not really aware what such virus pandemia was about and how serious consequences could bring, now I could say that by travelling in that time I take charge of a potential huge risk not only for my personal health and someone’s health but also because the outbreak turned out a sort of ‘worldwide war regime’ since no Country in the world was enough prepared to face up such a worldwide emergency and as a result each Country during March 2020 started to close the borders for the tourism like a domino effect, therefore I risked of not returning back to my living Country, however fortunately I landed at Vienna airport right on the last day before they would have fully-closed it to start arranging all the COVID-19 precautions. I have to admit that at the beginning I underestimated the situation by believing that such a virus would have been faded out like when it happend with SARS in 2003.

If we were to make an objective assessment of the situation, we would say that before the COVID-19 we humans were used too much to the COMFORT zone: we had everything granted, hang-out anytime and anywhere we wanted, have a plenty of choice about What-to-Do and Where-to-Go, all this spoilt us very much, nevertheless we never seemed to be happy because we never took into account that a worldwide health issue could affect us, we were under the illusion of being invulnerable, in fact we are NOT.

I would say that COVID-19 pandemia is like a 4th worldwide war with the only difference that this is not fought with (chemical) weapons, so if before the human was never satisfied suddenly he/she ended up to comply with a sort of regime. For some of us this has been being a great opportunity to discover ourselves from the spiritual point of view (check the past article https://giuseppegiampino.com/2020/04/12/easter-time-over-the-covid-19-outbreak-a-great-opportunity-to-research-and-plan-something-new/), start to plan/rethink our future life including our ambitions, hobbies, etc. in other words this situations still represents for us a clear opportunity for growing.

One spontaneous question we should try to answer is: how our ancestors who experienced the 1st and 2nd worldwide war would react to this situation if they were to be still alive?

I personally gave an answer to this question and I say that I firmly believe that they would be wise enough and responsible. Unfortunately and Fortunately neither are our ancestors alive nor we experienced war time (at least in Europe).

What can the pros and cons of COVID-19 pandemia be?

I have drawn out the following PROS:

1. Less mobility which means a decrease of the worldwide pollution
2. Re-discover our spirituality by leaving apart unnecessary distractions
3. Learn how to behave with one another and try to put aside our being superficial

CONS:

1. Deterioration of the social relationships since they are permanently being replaced by virtual relationships
2. Widespread fear of doing any activity

Naturally, more CONS can be identified, however if we focus too much on those we would never overcome the current situation. Let’s try to imagine how people from rural villages e.g. in Indonesia are living this situation, probably they may not be aware of this virus and even if they are they are used to a genuine and simple life-style and they do not psychologically suffer this situation very much.

Last but not the least, most of us as world explorers asks this question: when could we return to explore the globe? 🙂

There is no certainty about this point and beyond the covid-19 issue there are other matters such as the pollution and sustainability, e.g. the intensive air traffic is a big source of pollution for our planet and even barely the worldwide medias seriously talks about it, I firmly believe that in the coming future we will have to get used to a new idea of travelling which does not include fuel-powered means of transport, we all know that the future of the planet is entirely on our hands.

Having said that, I warmly welcome you to comment with your hints and remarks on how to deal with the pandemia as much best as possible for our good human future.

Giuseppe