Article written by Corneliu Bodea

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I closely follow the events both in my proximity and in the more distant space and I am aware of domestic and international political decisions, the results of important scientific research and discoveries, the significant cancan and other events. I can generally call myself a person attentive to information. In the avalanche of topics and the effervescence of journalistic or simply communication reporting in recent months, I tried to define a series of support points for a schematic, but comprehensive and eloquent drawing dedicated to the main event of this year, the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the disease associated with Covid 19 and the consequent economic crisis. I was also helped enormously by the few days spent in solitude in a place dear to me on the shores of the Adriatic Sea, the sound of cicadas and maybe one, two glasses of wine. I was surprised that I could not unite what seem to be two perfectly parallel planes that I had arrived at as a result of my attempt.

Leaving aside, however, those who believe that the earth is flat, that vaccines are made to fool the population and that this virus does not exist, I cannot help but group the information, the real effects, but also the perceptions of people as geometric elements contained in the two planes I was talking about and which seem to never meet before infinity.

In one of them we find aspects related to the aforementioned crisis that seem to be predominantly positive or at least without negative potential and I will list a few:

– the sudden halt and then drastic reduction of human activities (transport, consumption of resources, etc.) generated the greatest decrease in carbon emissions and led to the most important return of pollution indicators from the industrial age, contributing more than any project so far to the slowdown of global warming;

– the emergence of the pandemic has generated the greatest known effort of humanity to fight against one of the greatest risks that could lead to the extinction of humanity, according to all major and authorized studies, namely the risk of pandemics with deadly viruses;

– work from home brought the family back with its importance and challenges to people’s attention, making them address their problems;

– the slowdown of activity during the lock-down period gave most people the opportunity to introspect, an activity so important and long abandoned to the daily whirlwind of false problems;

– governments have found resources everywhere to give oxygen to companies, entrepreneurs, temporarily lifting or subsidizing the burden of taxes, offering grants for development, for modernization, subsidized loans and so many more (we don’t know yet, because this bile is still jumping…). The European Union has brilliantly overcome the cold superiority of the North, finally finding the warm and funny chatter of the South acceptable and hands would have shaken hands if the protection rules had not prohibited this.

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