By Farouk Araie
Cape Town - China is now the epicentre and vortex of a new Covid-19 wave and a new variant that is raging across the country in a biological inferno unprecedented since the last viral inferno in 2019.
A crisis on this scale can reorder society in dramatic ways. Covid-19, five letters, two numbers, invisible but potentially on everyone’s hands.
The deadly and ferocious impact of this escalating new wave seems indelible.
The incredulous faces of men, women, children, caregivers and patients are relayed in 3-D across the world in real time as the Earth’s inhabitants quiver and shake at the approaching viral storm looming over the horizon.
The most sophisticated detection systems on Earth cannot detect its silent footprints, its invisible trajectory and its medical vapour. A medical assassin par excellence.
The entire world is in trepidation, as this new wave is bound to sweep across all continents and threatens to engulf both hemispheres in a viral tsunami that will become unstoppable.
Harrowing scenes of death and misery accompanied by sadness and helplessness are flashed across the global media in real time as a global community watches in anguish and despair.
Apocalyptic scenes emerging from all parts of China are disturbing. The entire world is enveloped in a global health emergency that will exact an enormous medical and economic toll upon humanity.
It is imperative for us as members of humanity and as a species to focus and reflect on the trail of incredible damage this rapidly moving new wave will leave in it’s deadly wake.
Right now, extraordinary and previously unimaginable responses are being taken to contain the pandemic and lessen it’s toll.
This invisible intruder will cross borders and cultures indiscriminately, affecting people’s lives regardless of their race or religion.
Our adherence to absolute safety measures will allow us to emerge victorious in a titanic battle with an invisible enemy whose reach and venom continues to stealthily encircle us.
The last global lockdown destroyed the economies of virtually every nation on Earth, and another lockdown would be a catastrophy of epic proportions.
We as a global community are in the cross-hairs of an emerging new viral assault.
Cape Times
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