Impact of Coronavirus on Daily Life: A Personal Reflection

These days, as we all know, we are all in our houses because of the popular coronavirus. If you don’t know, coronavirus is a new illness that has been created in China, specifically in Wuhan. This virus has given a lot to talk about, as it is very contagious. It is people that are asymptomatic; that means that he or she can infect other people but he or she hasn’t got any symptoms, and this is why this illness is so dangerous. The president of Spain has said that we will stay at home minimum until 26 (twenty-six) of April. In addition, it is expected that scientists will find a vaccine for it in a year.

In my case, I follow the news about the virus every day, although I think that every day is the same, it seems to me that the time doesn’t pass and that the news are the same also.

When I hear coronavirus, I think, how and when has it started all this? Without us realizing we are at home, one day after another, without can doing simple things like hanging out with friends, going to school…

I am worried especially about the health of my grandmas as they are old, but they are fine so it’s okay. If they were younger, I would be calm, as the illness doesn’t affect so much to young people. But there are also young people who have respiratory or heart problems, and this illness can affect them as much as to old people.

Fortunately, nobody in my family is infected, so I am calm; but, for instance, my uncle works at Eroski, and she wants to be on Easter Weeks holidays, even though she has to stay at home. She says that she is scared about all this.

About being at home 24 (twenty-four) hours a day, isn’t boring, but it is tiring. I would do anything to do the simple things I did before the quarantine.

I especially miss, from my daily life before the lockdown, my friends and also my grandmas, and also going out for a walk whenever I want, not worrying about going to the store to buy anything, and going out on weekends with my friends. I hope all this passes before summer, to go to the beach, party, and whatever I want.

When there is class, in the morning I do my homework, and in the afternoon I sometimes have math classes online, and if I don’t have them, or I finish the homework, or I watch a movie or I make video calls with my friends. And I also take an hour to do some sport. Rarely, some desserts are cooked by me.

About homeschooling I want to say that it isn’t an easy way to study, but we have to feel very lucky as we can continue with the classes, so that we do not have to make them up in summer. I think that it is more difficult as some explanations aren’t comprehensible. In my opinion, in this way it requires more personal effort for us. And it must also be said that just because we are at home all day, it doesn’t mean that we have to spend all day doing homework, because some teachers seem to understand that. In addition, to the fact that it isn’t an easy situation for us, since we have to be locked up all day, we have much more work than we had before. I understand that teachers want us to be entertained, and that is why they send us homework and jobs to do and also because they don’t want to be in class in summer, but one thing is to entertain and another that we can’t do anything else all day because we have lots of homework.

Speaking about the situation in the world, I think that coronavirus has changed it on a lot of different aspects. The economy has become down, for example, in restaurants and shops. The air pollution and CO2 fall as the virus spreads, because if we are in our houses, we won’t contaminate with cars and factories. In Venice the water has turned clear due to the lockdown, and that is another good point of all this. We should get something positive of everything, and from this situation we can say that we are doing a favor to the earth, and we are also putting aside money.

All things considered, we must look up to the doctors and all the personnel of the hospitals as they are doing a very big effort to take care of us, and it is also very important to be at home to not come down with the illness. We have to be very proud of the technology that we have nowadays, because thanks to that we can continue with the classes, and we can entertain ourselves with it, watching movies or even doing sport.

Thank you for listening.