2020 will remain the worst year of our time, and a stark sign of a severe existential crisis. It is the year of all unpleasant surprises. A microscopic virus, whose true origin and home were not known, terrified all of humanity, disrupted world economies, paralyzed various institutions, and reduced individual freedoms in an unprecedented way, as well as radically changed the lives of societies and relationships between individuals, shook the system of values and morals, and exposed the fragility of health and educational systems in many countries .
Only a year ago, people would travel and roam as they pleased, congregating in the thousands on various occasions. They celebrated New Year's Eve, dancing and singing at weddings and evenings. Thousands of fans would make the pilgrimage to the stadiums, to practice their rituals of joy and support. Mankind was doing this, without realizing that it was exercising a fundamental freedom that had lost its meaning and value today.
Because of the Covid-19 virus, our future is on the curb, tinged with mystery, fear and mistrust. We are living with the utmost doubt, without being able to anticipate what this future holds, despite the great hope that we cling to, thanks to the discovery of vaccines that are supposed to save us and save us from possible death, and help us return to normal and normal life. A year of panic, bewilderment, helplessness and painful scenes, even the doctors were stunned, facing a massive influx of hundreds of injuries, many of them in critical condition. The pictures were published and broadcast in horror. The recovery rooms looked like an electronic cemetery, and the pictures of hospitals filled to the last, and the calls for relief from broken elderly people affected all societies, as if we were facing a resurrected scene, heralding the inevitable end of humanity. Burial rituals for victims of the expanding coronavirus added to the panic. They deported and left in silence, buried out of sight of their family members. Ambulances and dead cars were enough to convince us, through their sheer numbers and frightening voices, that we are required to be very careful, to stay at home, and to strictly adhere to health safety measures.
Mankind needs a new interpretation of the world, without moral deception or insight
Everyone attests that the new Corona virus has infected representative democracy, including in countries that were considered the historical cradle of the most ancient democracies, as it has caused a chronic paralysis of the institutions of this democracy. Parliaments closed, the legislative and oversight machinery stopped. Educational institutions at all levels were closed, and distance education became the only and necessary alternative, to ensure the training process and interaction between teaching staff and learners. The stadiums and laboratories were closed, air traffic stopped and tourism died. And cities in various regions of the world have turned into spaces furnished by silence, hesitation and difficult waiting. The press was not spared from the repercussions of the pandemic, when hundreds of institutions decided to stop issuing the paper edition, and be satisfied with the electronic form. Theaters, cinemas, shows and concerts have ceased activities. Electronic libraries have replaced real libraries, and intellectuals, experts and opinion-makers have found no way to debate and debate about the pandemic, other than social media platforms and the virtual world, and many projects have gone bankrupt and aborted many dreams. Thousands of families were displaced, and millions of workers and employees lost their positions and sources of livelihood, especially in countries where brutal capitalism was eroded.
It was evident that social media networks disrupted the news market in an almost complete way, as the epidemic limited the intervention of experts and scholars, which cleared the way for these platforms to spread an ample amount of false news, because they are not neutral news platforms, as there is a great risk of exposure to influences and directives dictated by interests and agenda Certain. And the news and speeches that are most circulated, widespread and attractive, that are marketed and distributed among pioneers and activists, believe, with undeniable force, that the epidemic is man-made, found to crush the poor as part of a conspiracy plotted by the rich on the planet. Thus, lying and conspiracy theory flourished. The epidemic has deeply questioned politics, science, health systems, educational choices, and priorities in public policies. Thus, the meaning of statecraft was put forward anew, and people asked about the right decision that governments should make. During all the stages of the epidemic that mankind has gone through, governments have not been committed to a sufficient degree of transparency regarding the questions and questions raised by public opinion in various countries. She is busy, in the first place, reassuring the crowd and calming the crowds. She did not follow a rational path or path, for she spoke the language of doubt. It was clear that what weakens democracy is that it has not achieved all of its goals. A radical shift took place in the meaning and connotations of democracy itself, and the confrontation became sharp and raging between interests, and the concept of a right-to-left duality and totalitarian and authoritarian regimes changed.
The Covid-19 virus has been used as a catalyst to spread suspicion and mistrust, as an accelerator to explore new horizons of convictions, and belong to the conspiracy theory camp.
Metaphors overflowed, metaphors poured in, and many shifts occurred in all contexts, so infection spread to political, media and cultural fields. Many opinion writers, commentators, media professionals and intellectuals have tended to use the word virus and vaccine in the fields in which they are active. The epidemic has exacerbated the feeling of mistrust that has afflicted many democratic political systems for years. The Covid-19 virus was used as a catalyst to spread suspicion and mistrust, as an accelerator to explore new horizons of convictions, and belong to the conspiracy theory camp. These thoughts exploded in the social networks in a shocking way. The virus produced a new group of sellers of explanations and interpretations and marketers of a vision haunted by fear and frightening images about the progress of the virus, its spread and its sweeping conquests. The world sank in an unprecedented situation, empty of meaning, difficult and bewildering, as humanity needed to explain, persuade and explain the irrational, superstitious, metaphysical and populist reality that seemed to the great . To be sure, tremendous efforts were made here and there, to reassure humanity. And perhaps a new theory that is worrisome and paradoxical. These are attempts to absorb the cosmic anxiety produced by the terrifying epidemiological situation, the anxiety that contributed to doubling the existential pain and psychological confusion, especially since the experts' statements and their interpretations appeared to be different, and sometimes competing, and a source of panic and tension, which made it not play a leading role in unifying visions, especially in the early stages. To the epidemic.
Mankind needs a new interpretation of the world, without moral deception or deception that diverts the direction of vision and insight, and without judgments based on unconvincing and incoherent interpretations and explanations, as suspicion has grown and expanded its circle towards major institutions, including the World Health Organization, the International Monetary Fund, governments, lobbies, and so on. Laboratories that have entered into what looks like a war of fierce interests, due to the profit obsession that drools their saliva
A year has passed since the emergence of the Corona pandemic, and no one on this planet expected that after 12 months the coronavirus would be a direct cause of the death of more than a million and a half million people, and triggering the most serious global health crisis in nearly a century. Even if scientists reach the discovery of effective vaccines that are able to limit the spread and spread of the virus, the origin and domicile of the virus will remain a mystery.
The epidemic has limited the intervention of experts and scientists, which has opened the way for many platforms to spread an ample amount of fake news.
It was noteworthy that the time distance between the emergence of mysterious chronic infections in the respiratory system in the Chinese city of Wuhan and the publication of detailed information about the genome was very short, but the Chinese authorities exercised, very quickly, pressure on the laboratory that conducted the research, in order to delay the publication of this basic information, in any process. It seeks to control the virus and determine its identity and source. Since that date, China has been accused of neglecting the duty of scientific cooperation to determine the true origin of the pandemic, and experts have remained at a distance from the topic, and those who sounded the alarms, have been intimidated and threatened with sanctions. The Beijing authorities had hoped that journalists would collude with their approach to dealing with the pandemic, but moral imperative and professional duty prevented this from being achieved.
China tried to deflect all suspicions about it, and waged a media and diplomatic war to refute what the US President, Donald Trump, who used, from the first moments, the term Chinese virus. Scientists and experts have been keen on determining the source of the epidemic, and research paths have diverged, after being mixed with politics. Many questions raised by humanity, but no one was able to provide a satisfactory and satisfactory answer, or put this hypothesis on top of that, in the absence of an investigation based on the necessary and appropriate scientific conditions.
In a move that may dispel some doubts, the World Health Organization has finally formed a team of international experts, which is scheduled to travel to China in an effort to dispel the mystery surrounding the pandemic and try to solve the mystery, in an initiative that, despite its importance and necessity, came late. Because the Chinese authorities were constantly keen to abort a mission like this, adhered to a policy of silence and cover-up, and determined in advance the areas for the international experts' team to move in, as the work would not exceed the assumptions presented by the Chinese health authorities that were previously approved by the ruling political body. This position seems provocative and unacceptable to the great powers, especially the United States of America and the countries of Europe, given the number of deaths and the enormous losses that the pandemic has caused on all levels.