Reflections About COVID-19 by Tania Tome
(Economist, International Speaker & Coach, Author)
At the beginning of all this, I didn’t give much importance because with my learning of the use of quality time, I got used to not giving special attention to the “Trends” of news that are happening on the nets, especially negative ones, to avoid affecting the quality of my daily thoughts and my focus.
I was distracted when the WHO (World Health Organization) released the first alert for the disease on Dec. 31, 2019, after Chinese authorities reported cases of a mysterious pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China’s seventh-largest city with 11 million residents.
But it seems that the distraction was collective, since we were all in the fun of the entrance of the year, the wonderful 2020. The origin of transmission to humans goes back to hypotheses correlated with marine animals, but other research identifies the snake and the bat as potential transmitters.
For the less specialized, have arrived at “Whatsapp” mountains of videos of Chinese eating bats. And even then I was still distracted, wanting to be distracted on my own, and not caring at all about it. I opened a video, and ignored so many others, as I have a habit of doing, if there is no useful reason. I didn’t understand anything, and it seems that I didn’t want to understand either.
My main question was why the subject was relevant if China had and have millenary experience in eating all kinds of animals, in the view of everyone, even the most “stranger ones”.
Why would the virus only appear now? The question didn’t want to shut up.
Even though we are aware that the virus dates back to the year 1960, and that this is a new variety – 2019 – nCoV. I would ask myself: Why now?
While I was still dizzy and relaxed from the festive seasons, at the same time according to the same sources the first death came on January 9, 2020 and was a 61 year old Chinese man who had severe pneumonia and died after cardiac arrest.
According to the first reports, the average age was 75 years. The symptoms? Fever, cough, shortness of breath. In more severe cases, record of pneumonia, renal failure and severe acute respiratory syndrome.
My question remained firm, if the elderly usually have the weakest health and a weakened immune system is quite common for them to come out weakened with viruses.
What would a corona virus do that’s so special?
I continued to find the kind of questions posed and the media “virilization” of the virus interesting.
And from Brazil came the famous question:
Is it a virus that comes to stay or will it ‘disappear’?
I continued in clear memory, remembering the famous epidemics of Influenza A (Flu A), Zika and Ebola that killed many people and others that I didn’t have time to meet, because I was distracted on my own.
I continued to analyse the various theories and information in the market, from doctors saying that we are giving too much importance, that there are diseases that cause many more deaths. To the emerging spotlights of the general and global “state of emergency” alarm. In continued analysis, it is time for the economy, after all who would benefit most from the emerging economy of the Corona Virus?
And then I read everything, analyzed it and questioned it. From all indications that China would eventually benefit, since the real intention would be to scare the world to such an extent that investors and western shareholders of Chinese companies would leave those companies fiercely afraid of losing money, since the stock market price of those companies would also be in a downturn.
How would China win? By buying back and reinvesting in the same companies and regaining worldwide control of its own companies.
Well I think that would not only be the gain, since the security needs, would also create the ballet of the database economy on the one hand, as well as the creation of emerging technologies to make use of and manage that information.
China would be learning the philosophy of its main competitors very well. In fact, I learned when I was taking the economics course, from my economic dynamics teacher: “China can imitate well, and do even better”, this is the first step for the subsequent steps of innovation.
My distraction was also distracted and I entered the ballet of this economy, thinking how the media coverage of the “Chinese terrorist” had entered our heads.
Not only in the way that the Chinese business was being globalized closed, with no future prospects. But how to eventually come across a “Chinese” would be, immediately think of the “Corona Virus”, and worse than that, think about the worse, be infected and affected, with the worst that can exist: The uncertain.
Who else benefits from this? Competitors will continue to invest in products and services to handle with security problems. There will be ample funds to promote technologies and platforms for collecting more data worldwide.
More phobia, more control. It would still be safe to think of a clear desire to stimulate local production in certain countries without depending on China’s global competence to produce products from all over the world.
Companies would now be forced to manage with clearly higher costs and do their own exchanges and commercial transactions locally.
I learned somewhere still in business that it is better to:
“create problems, to sell solutions”.
In any of the possible scenarios, China’s “long term” preparation will continue to leave China where it has always been and will always be. China will continue to be China, with or without “corona virus”.
It will continue with its billions of people and will continue to produce. And if it is to produce internally its own market is enough, and enough is enough to be entitled: “the global market”.
But I wasn’t distracted, because the “Corona Virus” has already killed more than 65,000 people in the world, and today over 1,2 million people are infected.
Washing your hands and disinfecting them, perfecting safety rules like analyzing the body temperature level, is still imperative.
“Serra Leoa” where I am working, reveals a lot of being experienced, they are doing simple things, but well done.
I had to stop my distraction, when the ballet starts to affect me too. I’m on a work trip between countries, and I’m also starting to realize that I’m in the market, and nothing unrelated to everything that’s happening.
Between airports and planes, the climate you see is the emerging vacuum of recession. Fewer people circulating, and it is less really, less tourism, less business, less sales, finally the economy becomes a real economy: management of scarce resources. But while saving on the one hand, saving to invest. Profit-making businesses and businesses emerge, invisible to the “naked eye” appear on the other hand.
It has always been said that where there are problems there are opportunities, it depends entirely on perception. As the name itself indicates, perceiving and acting. And in a crisis, there are those who become billionaires, now or later.
And in this whole process, I wonder? What’s the music? What is the music that plays for African ears? The emerging ballet of the Coronovian economy?
I don’t know.
I think we’re still dancing to the drums beat. I don’t know if it’s good or not,
but at some point our spirits have to wake up and get up into the world.
Ps: Avoid general concentration spaces, follow the widely spread rules of prevention. Drink lots of tea with lemon and stay in regular, not cold, temperatures.
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