x̄ - > We shall be well (story of hope) - by drunk Esther

For a world where history gives us a go-ahead and the patterns are a way of predicting the next moves,
elites are always on the lookout to make sure they give us not only accurate but dependable
information on anything that seems to challenge the social life of humans. Luckily over the years, we have
seen the predictions come to happen and often take necessary action to commend the people
involved.
Let us go back a little, the Spanish flu, widely known as influenza was experienced from 1918 to
around the end of 1920, was a pandemic in this case that we should refer to, it was first identified in Spain
hence the name Spanish flu, an estimation of 500 million people were infected, and the reported
the number of deaths was 50 million. The mortality rate was high in adults between 20-40 years, also
younger than 5years old and 65years and older. Since no one worldwide understood it well, there was
no vaccine to protect people from influenza infection and the lack of enough knowledge on nonpharmaceutical inventions such as isolation, quarantine, good hygiene, use of disinfectant, and limitation
of public gatherings and the aftermath of world war 1 the flu is said to be the deadliest disease ever
reported in the history of mankind
Currently, the world is battling with a global pandemic, Coronavirus, worldwide there have been
1,288,372 confirmed cases and 70,482 reported deaths. World societies are practicing semi-quarantine, practicing social distancing, and have opened essential businesses, such as hospitals, groceries,
banks, and utilities to help curb the spread of Covid-19. The goal for all these measures is to drop
the cases to as low as zero-till negative. International regimes such as NATO, EU, and recently AU are
managing the cases by providing ventilators to affected countries, and mobilization world scientists to find
a cure or rather a vaccine for this pandemic.
People working from home are also in the action of slowing the spread of this pandemic, the most
hopeful thing about this spread is due to technology, a huge number of experts in medicine, and people
around the world take seriously the advice of WHO and practice non-pharmaceutical inventions.
The major things to compare Coronavirus with Spanish flu and what we should learn from them.
1. The Spanish flu was a pandemic that happened after the ww1, where people say the first case
was reported in a military base and believed to originate from Spain because Spain was neutral
during the war, the fatality rate was 2% which makes it the deadliest disease in history,
however, the number of people who died of the flu is said to be more than a 50million, which
bring us to the first point, due to technology, China and the rest of the developed countries, have a
record of the exact number of deaths and infected persons, from a reliable database. This is an
advantage because we can be able to monitor deaths and infection rates, thus taking more precautions toward the top of the spread of the coronavirus.
2. One of its commonalities is that no one is immune to them, although countries like North Korea
have reported zero deaths and a few infections this makes it a global issue. One difference however
in these pandemics is that the immunity of a group of people in the 1918 Spanish flu, that was
highly threatened was; healthy adults between 20-40 years while Coronavirus most affected
group is the old and people with other health complications like diabetes, asthma, and others, especially chronic ailments. This shows that the number of young children affected is low thus
the hope of a tomorrow if all goes wrong for the older people.
3. There was no vaccine for the Spanish flu and certainly no for Coronavirus, there were no
antibiotics for the bacteria and no cure for the virus, this makes both global concerns bringing
countries together and talking in one voice, encouraging people worldwide to apply the nonpharmaceutical measures put into place by world health organizations. as for the Spanish flu it
took two years to finally come to an end and 20 years to introduce the vaccine, unlike then now
the number of patients with coronavirus who have recovered is high worldwide teaching us
the practice of extremely high hygiene and coming up with innovative methods to take care of slums
and crowded places.
Finally, Coronavirus is a pandemic that has taken us world by surprise, making us panic but not
go into violence, it has made us learn the hugest lesson of our lives that we shall be able to overcome
anything like this in the future and tales we shall tell will not be of the hard times but the success
that as a world we all put our heads together as one and fought a battle that had threatened our
existence. Now more than before we have a possibility of getting the cure. Also, we hail bravo to the
commendable job of China, Germany, and North Korea for being able to contain the virus. As the drug
trials take in we hope that all shall be well. Because hope is the major ingredient in a crisis. And we shall
be rewarded greatly for our optimism.
Author
Drunk Esther,<