write diary entry on the topic covid from disease to disaster
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April 10, 2020
By Mohammed A. Salih | Penn Pandemic Diary
Mohammed A. Salih is a Perry World House Graduate Associate and a Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication.
The COVID-19 pandemic’s spread to the United States coincided, more or less, with the anniversary of the Iraq War 17 years ago. Although a war and a pandemic are different experiences, one thing brought back a strong sense of déjà vu for me: the panic in anticipation of a looming “disaster”.
I was a junior college student in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, in 2003 when the United States and its allies prepared to topple Saddam Hussein’s regime. There was a sense of optimism about a post-Saddam world among the Kurds, but also a widespread concern about the actual war.
Days before it became apparent the war was going to happen, schools, colleges, businesses and government offices across Kurdistan were shut down. Life came to a standstill. Streets were eerily deserted. Many people in major cities like Erbil left their homes and headed to the mountainous areas near the borders with Iran and Turkey. Most were worried that because the Kurds were allied with the Americans, Hussein might use the cover of war to launch a chemical weapons attack against them as he had done in 1988.
So, how do you actually prepare for a possible chemical attack? There was no protective gear, such as special suites or masks. So, people got creative. Everyone rushed to the bazaar to get plastic sheets to cover the windows from outside. For masks, one prevalent method was to put pounded charcoal and some white powder, the name of which I can’t remember, inside two layers of cloth in the hope that it would prevent the infiltration of gasses into one’s body through breathing. With such basic means we waited for the three-week duration of the war and thought we were somehow prepared for it. Luckily for us all, Hussein never used gas for whatever reasons.
Now, back to the present moment reality. Because COVID-19 is an invisible “enemy,” that creates a certain anxiety that makes it different from a war, and, in a way, more stressful. Even worse, there is nowhere to escape to as this is a global phenomenon. Now residing in the United States, my wife and I were particularly taken aback by the initial relaxed attitude about the outbreak among government officials and the general public. Our friends mostly downplayed it. When we were thinking of whether to go on a trip to Florida, that we had booked in November last year, most friends suggested we should go.
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it is very dangerous virus .
sometimes the people who have diabetes and BP are causing dead .
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the syptomes is mainly cold and fever and lose of taste.
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