The #Covid-19 Experience
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Our planet is facing its greatest crisis since the two world wars, the great depression and the Spanish Flu. Covid-19 came on suddenly and within a few months impacted on almost every country globally. The only way to stop it was to shut down the world, isolate and wait it out.
The impact on the global economy, jobs and businesses has been unprecendented and left many wondering how it all happened and why.
The #Covid-19 Experience is designed to answer as many of those questions as possible, what happened and most inportantly why Covid-19 is so much more a danger to humanity than SARS, MERS and the common cold.
The information is sourced from reputable reports and trusted sources so you can simply understand what happened. This is a living document and, as more information comes to light, it will be updated, not only for the people of today, but for the people of tomorrow so they too may learn from our experiences.
Andrew Dunkley
Andrew Dunkley has been a radio journalist and broadcaster for over three decades with several Australian radio networks inclusing the ABC for 22 years and has been the host of the Space Nuts Podcast for several years. He is married to Judy and they have three children and (currently) three wonderful grandchildren. He's also a very keen golfer.
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The #Covid-19 Experience - Andrew Dunkley
The #Covid-19 Experience
Andrew Dunkley
The #Covid-19 Experience
I first learned of Covid-19 in the news, just like everyone else and like the vast majority of people, I paid little attention and wrote it off as the flu. I suppose, working in the media as I have for 37 years, it’s easy to grow cynical because every year, just as Autumn (Fall for you northerners) sets in, we always hear about the next big flu coming out of China or wherever and how it will be the worst one ever, so when Covid-19 made its appearance, I didn’t give it a second thought except to say sarcastically, Here comes another sniffle that’ll wipe us all out.
It’s easy to look back now and realise how wrong I was. To be honest I’m writing now after being in isolation for only a few weeks. I saw a video on Facebook asking how this will all be remembered and how the children of today and beyond will study this in their history lessons. It inspired me to tell the story from my perspective and to learn as much as I could about this affliction and hopefully help you to understand it too.
I’m Australian and live in the small provincial city of Dubbo in Central New South Wales and this is how I saw it…
But before we relive the days of Covid-19 perhaps we should look at some history; the human history of pandemics as they came about because this has been happening for a very long time and for all kinds of reasons.
It’s likely, during the times of tribal life and hunter-gatherers that illnesses like this occurred regularly but because people lived in small groups and rarely contacted each other, the effects were isolated and impacted only small numbers. They probably had no idea what was happening, and no doubt thought they had displeased the Gods in some way. They would have watched as their kinfolk died off. Those that survived may well have perished because they lacked the support and expertise to carry on or just lived out their lives in isolation. We’ll probably never really know.
When humanity started to learn to sow crops and to farm, the nomadic hunter-gatherer ways ended, and communities sprang up which saw people living in much larger groups. In time some of these communities became huge cities and with that the potential for greater suffering at the hands of disease became much more significant, they just didn’t know it.
It’s likely that the first experience of a pandemic occurred around 8000BCE when these communities began the spring up. Diseases like Malaria, tuberculosis, the flu, leprosy, and smallpox would have been common over time; killers all.
As communities grew and ocean travel became possible diseases hitched a ride through the arrival of foreign trade and of course war. Nothing much has changed.
Pandemics in History
The first pandemic that appears in the record books occurred around 430BCE in Athens, Greece. It happened during the Peloponnesian War. While there’s no definitive diagnosis to go on it appears to have been typhoid fever with symptoms described as fever, blood in the throat and on the tongue, lesions, and red skin as well as muscle weakness. The disease has now been defined as a pandemic because it crossed borders impacting on Libya, Ethiopia, and Egypt. It found its way into the water wells of Athens which was under siege at the time by the Spartans. The effect of the disease turned the tide of the war and Athens fell.
Next was likely the Antonine Plague around 160AD. This was probably smallpox. Infected Huns (Germans) passed it on to the Romans and when the Roman soldiers returned home, it spread throughout the empire claiming many victims including the Emperor Marcus Aurelius. Its symptoms included fever, sore throat, and diarrhoea and if you survived long enough, pussy sores. This plague lasted 15 years.
In 250AD came the Cyprian Plague and its first known victim was also a man of high standing, the Christian Bishop of Carthage. Symptoms were similar to smallpox, but it was probably something else. When the people of the city realised to their horror that the disease was amongst them, they fled and took the illness with them to Ethiopia, Northern Africa, Rome and into Egypt. The illness turned up time and time again for the next three hundred years reaching Britain around 444AD. It had a profound effect on the British who were at war with the Picts and the Scots. They were forced to enlist the help of the Saxons who ultimately took control of Britain.
541AD The Justinian Plague showed up in Egypt and ran its