COVID 19 ASSAULT AND RECENT PANDEMIC VIRUSES

07,MEI 2020

INDONESIA 

23C degree is the temperature of my place now  in indonesia . the weather is quite cold for asian girl like me who usually felt the 30C degree . my surrounding in here is quite because the restriction from the government. there are not much  people going to school or work  . moreover, we are entering ramadhan in may and usually people didnt go out much.

 

The cases of covid 19 getting higher each day, yet we are optimistic that this pandemic will end soon in june .. after we celebrate our important events as a muslims. ied al fitr .Hopefully.

 

 economic condition in indonesia right now is like wreck havoc(i know other countries feel the same). when people are jobless while they didnt had any savings to survive . The mall,foodstall etc isnt in any better situation too because people are afraid if the food are healthy furthermore, we didnt know when this pandemic will over and dissapear  .

for 22 years of my exsistence this is the first time i felt the pandemic effect.yet, I've heard some viruses like flu burung or flu babi ,DBD , Ebola but they are not as dramatic as corona virus disease.well, maybe because these viruses didnt threatened indonesia like covid 19 now.

fyi, this is not first time the world was infected by viruses there were a lot before us :

(I selected worse pandemic whom closer to our era 2020)

 

1.HIV/AIDS Pandemic (at its peak, 2005-2012)

 

Death Toll: 36 million
Cause: HIV/AIDS
First identified in Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1976, HIV/AIDS has truly proven itself as a global pandemic, killing more than 36 million people since 1981. Currently there are between 31 and 35 million people living with HIV, the vast majority of those are in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 5% of the population is infected, roughly 21 million people. As awareness has grown, new treatments have been developed that make HIV far more manageable, and many of those infected go on to lead productive lives. Between 2005 and 2012 the annual global deaths from HIV/AIDS dropped from 2.2 million to 1.6 million.

 

 

 

 

2. H1N1 Swine Flu pandemic: 2009-2010

 

 

 

The 2009 swine flu pandemic was caused by a new strain of H1N1 that originated in Mexico in the spring of 2009 before spreading to the rest of the world. In one year, the virus infected as many as 1.4 billion people across the globe and killed between 151,700 and 575,400 people, according to the CDC.

The 2009 flu pandemic primarily affected children and young adults, and 80% of the deaths were in people younger than 65, the CDC reported. That was unusual, considering that most strains of flu viruses, including those that cause seasonal flu, cause the highest percentage of deaths in people ages 65 and older. But in the case of the swine flu, older people seemed to have already built up enough immunity to the group of viruses that H1N1 belongs to, so weren't affected as much. A vaccine for the H1N1 virus that caused the swine flu is now included in the annual flu vaccine. 

(it was happened during my elementary school day . so i didnt really aware of the viruses and indonesian government handle it well  )

 

3. West African Ebola epidemic: 2014-2016 

 

 

Ebola ravaged West Africa between 2014 and 2016, with 28,600 reported cases and 11,325 deaths. The first case to be reported was in Guinea in December 2013, then the disease quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. The bulk of the cases and deaths occurred in those three countries. A smaller number of cases occurred in Nigeria, Mali, Senegal, the United States and Europe, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. 

There is no cure for Ebola, although efforts at finding a vaccine are ongoing. The first known cases of Ebola occurred in Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1976, and the virus may have originated in bats.

 

 

overall, world is still going and we shouldnt give up! we can go through this covid 19 together i hope and allah has better plan for us all . so, we just have to walk and keep going❤❤

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sources :

https://www.mphonline.org/worst-pandemics-in-history/ 

https://www.livescience.com/worst-epidemics-and-pandemics-in-history.html