Blog Post 10:
The World Today and COVID-19 Vaccine
It's been a few months since the world has been hit by this pandemic. Since its inception, thousands have lost their lives, millions have become infected, the economy has fallen and the world has been under lockdown ever since. However, in May many things have been slowly moving forward and people are trying to adapt to a new way of living until a vaccine is created. However, is it safe enough to completely remove the lockdown? How much are people playing with their own health?
Prof John Wright speaks to BBC News about the vaccine still having a long way to go.
However, it is interesting to notice how The Guardian identifies the long-awaited vaccine as something that might never occur. Chief medical officer Jonathan Van-Tam says to the Guardian
His statement might be shattering people's hopes but what he says might be the truth because vaccines are not a magic potion. There will always be a 50% chance of success or failure.
What is interesting to notice are the different ideologies that are being presented to the news media outlets regarding the matter. Where one news media shows hope for experimentation for future vaccines, the other news media is showing us the other side of reality - the one where no vaccine will ever be created. What will the world be like without it?
There are differences in opinion regarding the matter and people are eager to return to their once known normalcy. However, will that ever occur? Right now, we are floating in the middle of the ocean and the information that news media are presenting is opposing one another with diverse reality perspectives.
What we need to be certain of is that it is still early and time will only tell, however, we cannot go back to living the way we were before. We now have to live in a new normal. The normal that this pandemic brought with it.
No comments:
Post a Comment