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We Are COVID

A virus is a virus, but we are the ones who infect one another

By Olivia GyuranPublished 3 years ago 4 min read
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For as long as humans have existed, viruses and diseases have killed and weakened our people, causing panic and fear across the globe throughout history. The Plague, or the Black Death, from the 1300s, killed 50% of who it infected and is still spoken about with an awestruck horror up to this day. The Spanish Influenza, from the early 1900s, which killed about 3% of the world's population, is a time associated with the World Wars and the some of the darkest aspects of human history. Countless other such plagues and sicknesses have occurred and still do, but now, in 2021, all we can think about it COVID 19, which kills a very small percentage of those who get infected by it, but it kills enough for us all to hurt for the people we have lost.

Now, if you were to think about it, it is not the virus itself that is causing such suffering and distress worldwide, it is the people. Our bodies react to it, we get sick, we recover or we die, and what's more, we panic. The virus may be designed to hurt us, to kill us maybe, but it is absolutely our choice as to how it affects us, like anything else in life.

I don't believe that this virus was sent from whatever higher power one believes in as a punishment however, but as a warning and a more forceful reminder that gives us the chance to take a break, to heal, and to come together as one and to set our differences aside to problem solve what has happened: as human beings, not as 'males', not as 'whites', not as 'straights', not as 'cisgenders'.

As Human beings, because that's what we are.

Yes, some of us may be female, may be non-binary, may be Black, may be gay, may be Muslim, may be Indigenous, and these differences should be celebrated, not fought over.

Who told people that different was bad in the first place?

COVID is our sign from nature that we need to acknowledge our past, the light and the dark, and heal from there. The virus is only giving us an opportunity to unite in the face of danger, and to achieve our best, even in the worst circumstances.

Its okay to be scared, it is a scary time, but what we should be doing is supporting one another and solving the problem together, instead of pitting people against each other so everyone believes they have to fight this war by themselves.

This is not a war, it is a pandemic.

Pro- Vaxxer, Anti- Vaxxer: what does it matter? Try to understand one another, and maybe then you can understand and see that we are all just scared people. We have the right to be scared, to need, and to worry, but anger will only make things worse.

We wash our hands, social distance, mask, maybe even take the vaccine to make sure we are safe from the virus and keep ourselves from getting infected. But what people don't understand is that despite all this effort, we are infecting each other, getting sick: hate is a disease

The virus isn't what's feeding and cultivating our fear and growing it into hate: it's us.

We are so busy fighting one another that we don't even see the enemy as it truly is, and who knows, the solution could be right before our eyes. Take off that blindfold of hate and see the world as something you can help heal, not something you have no control over that gives you hit after hit. So please, dear reader, if you ever hate another human being for who they are, whether its their name, their skin colour, their gender, their religion, whether the are Pro- Vaxxer or Anti- Vaxxer: try to understand them for the choices they make without judgement because you don't know what their situation is, and if its something they can't control or change- why are you hurting them in the first place?

Approach our world with peace and an open mind, no matter how hard things are, and trust in nature, yourself, and others. My heart goes out to all fellow humans who have lost loved ones to this virus.

We can fight this together!

-Olivia Gyuran

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