Covid

At first, I thought CoronaVirus was a joke. I would scroll through twitter and instagram laughing at the memes made, knowing very little of what was to come. I had no idea the US would shut down, travel to Europe would be banned, and I would have to face time into my classes in order to receive an education. My feeds have turned from light hearted jokes to emergency warnings about worldwide shortages. After starting in Wuhan, China, it seemed as if America was safe, but quickly after we saw the rapid spread that has left all of us in mandatory quarantine until April 27th. One big issue we are seeing now is the availability of resources. Going to grocery stores nowadays is scary with the shortage of resources we have. America is one of, if not the most well developed country. So obviously, we should be able to help lesser developed or economically stable countries, right? Well, looking past the fact we are running short on resources ourselves, hospitals are actually having to withhold ventilators from sick patients, since there are only so many to go around. People are forced to suffocate from the mucus in their lungs because of OUR lack of resources. We hardly have enough for us, much less other countries. Another big issue is the lack of testing in the US. China did send us quite a few tests, but its crazy to think about how its hardly enough. I think America was poorly set up to deal with this situation, as weve never had to do anything like this before. This pandemic is the first of its kind, which makes it hard for us to figure it out and deal with it. As soon as we are able to slow it down, I feel as if then we can help other countries, but right now we cant help them if we cant even figure it out ourselves. 









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