As of 3/26/2020, the world has passed the 520K of Coronavirus cases with 23K of fatality – with China, Italy and USA ranked the top 3 countries with its citizens tested positive.
With the fatality rate at 4.53 percents, it is ranked 4th in comparison to the last 4 viruses outbreaks for the last 100 years – Nipah, MERS, Ebola and the recent SARS took the top 4 spots with Nipah owned the deadliest title for now.
Just for comparison purpose the Influenza A,B and C that caused the common flu in approximately 20% of the population have less than 0.1 percents of fatality rate.
I would suspect that once the spreading of the coronavirus is stabilized across the globe over the next 10 years, the fatality rate will be very close the common flu that most of us are at risk when the winter arrives.
DO NOT expect the vaccine for the current pandemic is available for the general population this year!
Since World War II, United Stated and China are the clear global leaders for many more years come. With so much resources in money and human talents between the 2 countries – neither one was prepared for the latest worldwide spreading of the virus.
No known vaccine as of 3/26/2020 since the first known case reported in China in November of 2019.
All the best and the brightest of our scientists are working toward the development of the first vaccine and they must follow the strict scientific guidelines to ensure the cure does not have the side effects that are worse than the virus itself.
We, as the recipients of the vaccine benefit, must support the strict scientific guidelines – regardless how the coin is tossed and determined our individual’s fate with the virus.
What can we do?
Health – practice high personal hygiene
I just returned to the United States from Japan on an emergency flight due to the coronavirus. If I had a choice, I would have stay in Japan and ride through the current pandemic.
For the last 6 years, I have a chance to travel extensively around the world. From my perspective, the Japanese are the cleanliest group of people – in normal time, many Japanese wore masks by default.
Moreover, as a group in entirety, they practiced social distance naturally – even in tight spaces in tiny spaces of restaurants and packed subways.
Relationship – embrace an opportunity for self-reflection and invest the time to know your love ones better.
Since last week, many businesses decided to follow the government’s advice and shut down to curb the spreading of the coronavirus.
Many people are staying home and it is the first time they experience feeling of truly “staying home” – as many entertainments from sports to foods are limited.
If your living arrangement is single without have to share your personal space with anyone, this is an golden opportunity for self-reflection – as there are few distractions from the external environment.
The limited choice in entertainments will give many of you the chance to spend time with your “Self” and discover the relationship within – many of us will live and die without truly know the person within in its entirety.
For the rest of you who have a mate and children who live under one roof, this could be the first time after so many years, an opportunity for you to know each and everyone better – again, as there are limited entertainments from the external environment.
Interestingly, many of you will someday force to share the personal space with your mate, for example when you retire – it may not as easy as you imagine!
Money – buy, buy and buy!
Unless this is the end of humanity event, we as a species, will strive forward for a higher ground – that include Wall Street.
This is Warren Buffets’s wisdom I picked up and applied in the 2009 financial fiasco “…be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful” – and it worked!
Wall Street officially started in 1792, its 228 years history has been ravaged by man and natural disasters – the coronavirus will not be the Wall Street final chapter.
Humanity – we are all in this together!
Coronavirus does not discriminate races, genders and wealth regardless where it originated. Unfortunately, base on the data it is selectively discriminate ages – more of the elders in the aging cohort died disproportionally in comparison to the general population.
Protecting and providing for the elders is what separating us from our animal relatives. We are first and foremost are animals by nature – once we have labeled ourselves as humans, we must take on this responsibility.
As of the quarter of the 21st century, along with the 7.8 billion people across the globe, arise the challenges that only can be solved with cooperation.
US and China are the current economic top two super powers of the world. Their failures will be felt across the globe – this is the elephant effect as oppose to the butterfly effect.
Mother Nature operates on two conditions, matter or non-matter, organic or inorganic, live or die – nothing in between.
Individually, we may compete to climb the pyramid hierarchy. However, the end result has been engraved in stone – we are all in it together as in the glorious past, thrilling present and inspiring future.
Consider the coronavirus pandemic as a practice drill to test the human species cooperation capability – this is a requirement for the survival and the flourish beyond the surface of this planet for the future to come.
Let’s play the game of life!
