This is something that being all over the news for months.
An epidemic in the history, THE epidemic in our lives. Never
experienced such things that are now happening with and around us.
All started in the city of Wuhan, China around Christmas. We were updated about the number of infected people and deaths from January day by day, and kept an eye what's going on. But honestly, it was too far to worry about it seriously. Then the epidemic started to grow to considerable size and seemed not to stay within the Chinese borders and spread quickly in different countries. We all started to focus on it and to follow the happenings with more attention. And then, the course of events changed to Europe immediately. It raised its head in North Italy, a couple-of-hours-drive from us. We heard great loss of life. Numerous Italians fell prey to it unmercifully. Panic, emptied shops, quarantine, curfew. On the day of 20/MAR/2020, more Italians died (4032) due to the virus till now than Chinese (3248) altogether. The current news are about 270,325 infected people, 11,277 deaths, 90,603 recovered worldwide.
Hungary could drew a lesson from the Italian nightmare and the
government tried/tries to react in time, so preventive actions were/are ordered
one after another. At first, only the indoor places with more than 100 people
were closed and outdoor events with more than 500 people were cancelled. Then slowly
all other events were cancelled and each places where more people could stay at
the same time were closed. I bless my
mind and the day, when I hurried into the library to get some books for preparing
my homeworks because the following day the library was closed, too. And that
was the day when Gabi called me on my way to the library and told that he
needed to go into quarantine. He was at the building that was emptied just when
he was there because of an infected employee who was just taken by the
ambulance. Although, Gabi was outside the building and worked in gloves since
the virus was in the country and kept the distance, the management decided to
go home for 2 weeks. This automatically meant that Dominik, Nolen and also me
needed to stay at home due to the latency. (As I approached the library on foot
avoiding public transportation, I accidently run into one of my old bestfriend,
Máriusz, known from the college. Then and there he told me that they expect
their baby girl by August. What a turn in his life! A musician, a composer, a
keyboarder, a master of the art of living who tried and experienced a lot on
Earth. Can be an exemplar and highly appreciated by me. So, it was a nice
chance meeting.)
Dominik could enjoy only one more day at home than his
classmates because the following day the schools were ordered to close and
remote digital education took effect. (At this period from the kid's lives: Nolen
starts to speak longer words like "mákóbuba"= mákos guba= poppy seed dumps, "betokeve"= betonkeverő= cement mixer,
"csodapo"= csodapók= wonder spider, "én vizem"= my water. As for Dominik, he is now learning how to make a
pigtail from his own hair.) By now, we totally pupate ourselves into our home
and thanks God (or rather my great DAD), I’m really really grateful that we
live in a family house with a huge garden. Currently it’s warm outside, we have
the daily routine more or less - it needs to be improved a little bit, we have
a huge trambuline and actually have everything we need. Tremendous number of
construction in our neighbourhood supplying the best theme that a little boy is
interested in: endless number of tractors, bobcats, dumpers, road-rollers,
etc... Still no curfew but still too
many people on the streets and what is much more annoying too many OLD people
on the streets, in the supermarkets and everywhere. It seems the number of
victims are not high enough to be afraid and modify the lifestyle (85 infected
people, 4 deaths). But this might be changed critically in the next few days
and weeks. Needless to say, the importance of door-to-door deliveries, the work
of couriers, doctors and healthcare workers, shop assistants revaluated. They
are those who perform superhuman achievement these days, risking their own
health day by day. Respectable, honorable. Help, collaboration can be
experienced everywhere (eg. „feed the healthcare workers” movement) but sad to
say that a certain group of people exists that wants to take advantage of the
situation and eg. applies unreal high prices of differents products or improve
the situation by knocking on the doors of elderlies with the reason of
disinfection but they are burglars in real, etc… And then there are tremendous
number of memes spreading on Facebook in asssociation with COVID-19 to make
possible crying laughing in this hard situation. One of my favuorite ones is "If schools are longer closed, parents invent the
antiserum of the virus earlier than scientists."
On the other hand, the Earth is happy, a little bit. Factories suspended its activities, smokestacks and exhaust-pipes stopped to exhale the smokes and fumes, pollution was critically reduced. Due to the limitation of air transportation and home offices, certain emissions was also reduced. A number of positive effects of the happenings of the last months can be listed, one of my favourite ones: since the lockdown of Venice without the pollution of boats the water has been begun to clear up and is full of fish and dolphins has been spotted in the canal for the first time in nearly 60 years! Nature just hit the RESET button on us!
