Covid-19 - Unprecedented: When the world decides to reset human



Twenty years from now, when I am 51 yo, I will be reading this again (hopefully the blog still holds) and ponder upon what happened in 2020, a year when eventful catastrophes decided to occur, one after another. it is not even half of the year, but the world experiences a lot of tragedies, one of them had inadvertently changed the normality, forcing everyone to adopt the so called new norm. 

So I decided that I need to pen down this historic moments. Let's have a recap of major catastrophes that had happened between January to May 2020

1. Australian bush fire: The black summer began as early as June 2019, became uncontrolled fire which peaked during December to January. 

2. Devastating floods in Indonesia: The flood submerged the capital Jakarta in the wee hour of January 1, killed people and forced people to flee their shelters. 

3. Eruption of Taal Volcano, Philippines: A sudden eruption of ash and steam in January 12 shocked villagers to flee and shut down Manilla's international airport, offices and schools.

4. The death of Kobe Bryant in helicopter crash: RIP legend, January 26

5. Coronavirus pandemic - COVID-19 
This is the biggest calamity that began to occur end 2019 as just an epidemic (a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time) and quickly escalated to become pandemic (prevalent over a whole country or the world) in March 2020. The unknown flu first detected in Wuhan which was reported to WHO on 31 Dec 2019. Since the declaration as pandemic, the number of cases and death skyrocketed forcing the closing of boarders by countries including Malaysia. This calamity has prolonged until now (May) and may not be subsided sooner. Bye2 #travelgoal2020 #stayhome

Out of the 5, the 5th one shocked the world to the max. Up until now, some countries still grasping the fact that IT IS NOT A JOKE (jeling amerika syarikat).

So what's the new norm that we have been adopting so far, forced by Ms. Corona?

Work From Home (WFH)
in the institution I am currently working at, remote working arrangement is somewhat alien. Accordingly, it was thought to be non-implementable. That, was before ms corona hit. When the government declared Movement Control Order on 18 March 2020, we have nothing but to adhere to. All of sudden, everyone started WFH and guess what? it is easier than it was perceived. 


Here I am, writing this post while sitting on my lounge shirt on a cosy sofa in my house on working day because time is flexible. haha

Social distancing
Never have I ever thought that we have to ever queue to enter shopping mall but here we are, lining up 1 meter apart, adhering to the rule coz aint nobody want to contact with covid-19 carrier. Elevator is marked with stickers, people are replacing "hand-on-chest" gesture over shaking hands, no more social gathering, even for now, Jumaat payer has been cancelled until further notice. How's that?

Speaking of which, 2020 will be the first Aidilfitri where people will celebrate in a new norm way haha. Merasalah kau! Among the SOP to adhere are:
1. Visiting only allowed to immediate family members (but DG Hisyam has been repeatedly saying to discourage the visit, safe the elderly and kids, they are the most vulnerable)
2. Visiting only allowed on first day of raya
3. CANNOT BALIK KAMPUNG! Yeah take that Malaysia. Due to your stubbornness in flattening the curve, you pay for it! wakakaka

Everyone is hygiene freak, for good cause
When Covid-19 cases started to escalate, prices of hand sanitisers and masks increased to an extreme level. Normal price of a mini bottle of hand sanitiser went up exponentially from RM6 per bottle to freaking RM25, the least. gila tak? Even the surgical mask that normally costed less than RM1 was sold at RM2.50! per mask! That was before the snail government came into action and saved the day by putting ceiling price to them.

So we have been washing hands every other minute, before and after touching anything. Immediately after arriving home from outside, we would straight go to shower and clean ourselves, immediately toss the cloths into washing machine and even sanitise our groceries.

Damn you ms corona the unseen virus! 

Until scientists found the vaccine for the virus, all these will continue. and it has been 3 months since the inception of MCO, people are adapting well to the routines, mostly 

Until the cure discovered, all travel plans will be put into bins. All social gatherings and concerts are put on hold. 

Everything that is susceptible to making contact with people, distributing the virus to the mass, is cancelled. 2020 is cancelled. 

Dear 2020, we found error in the installation. Please restart. 
Thanks.











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