evere acute respiratory
According to Bourouiba (2020), COVID-19 is a disease caused by a new strain of severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2. COVID is an acronym for Corona Virus Disease. The disease broke out in late 2019 and was initially referred to as “2019 novel coronavirus”. The virus belongs to a family of viruses as Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS). This report, through personal interviewing on friends and family, will highlight how COVID-19 has changed the job, school, family, and social lives across the world and the solutions being adopted to neutralize the impact of the virus.
Personal interviews were performed through phone calls, email messages, and in-person interviews. According to the friends interviewed, the community members have been advised to work remotely, and use cashless online purchase transactions. This has come along with challenges to balance between home and work environment. Moreover, the friends I interviewed argued that families had lost self-concentration, and cases of domestic violence and depression have shot up (Bourouiba, 2020). Besides, most people are living in fear of the unknown, and my family members seem to worry about school calendar change since the fees paid in the first term has not been utilized. It is quite challenging for children to get accustomed to a new online learning environment with little supervision. Singularly, the community social life has taken a different shape since the outbreak of the disease. Nowadays, governments have abolished and banned community gatherings. These are the meetings for fostering increased positive community interactions (Q. R. Nancy, in-person interview, April 11th, 2020). Many friends have complained of boredom since the disease has led to the cancellation of crucial social events such as sports activities such as soccer hockey, basketball, car racing, among others.
Conclusively, the community has adopted necessary measures to curb the spread of the virus. These measures have been considered given the fact that the vaccine for the virus is yet to be found. As I interviewed Steve over WhatsApp video call, who lives in Spain; he asserted that their government-imposed total lockdown to encourage members to stay home whenever they exhibit symptoms, covering mouth and nose with medically approved masks, always covering mouth with a tissue when coughing, and washing hands with soap and running water. In addition, the majority of the community members agree with the social solutions being championed by the local Government (Bourouiba, 2020). They agree that social distancing is the pivotal tool available at the moment to minimize the spread of the virus. However, some people are supporting the governments that have enacted total nation-wide lockdown such as Italy, Wuhan, among others, to absolutely curtail the possibility of the virus spreading.