The Coronavirus outbreak has changed nearly everything, how we work, play, entertain, and learn. Universities, schools are either closing or switched to distance learning, all the major sports events have been either postponed or cancelled, and millions of people have been asked to work remotely.
Though none of these echoes transforming effects, but deep down the COVID-19 outbreak have become a part of today’s life. From social distancing to quarantine and isolation, these terms are doing nothing but contributing to our vocabulary. And for many Usians right now, the record of a novel coronavirus outbreak recalls 9/11 or the 2008 financial crisis or maybe 1987’s ‘Black Monday’ — happenings that remolded the society in numerous ways, from how we travel, shop, learn and deal, with the standard of security and surveillances, and even to the way we entertain. It seems slightly tough to go back to normal as the pandemic has scrubbed the peal out of us.
While the pandemic has made thousands of changes, how are you dealing with these abrupt changes to how we live? Are you practicing social distancing or have convinced your mind to live with the current situation? Are you sure what it really means? It’s probably jumped beyond our minds as the novel coronavirus outbreak has transformed even the way of greetings, gatherings, travelling and, of course, learning.
Everything feels strangely new amid the coronavirus outbreak. It’s unbelievable, overwhelming, especially for Millenials, it’s more like walking into an old periodically occurring nightmare. It seems relatable to t
he scene of any movie or blockbuster, we have seen based on pandemic, however, we have encountered this earlier, but now we all are characters of a movie and somehow we have to play safe. Life has become a movie amid the virus and this is how it has reformed our lives.
Cast your mind back and imagine someone narrating the same story: within a month schools and universities will be closed, roads will be free, nature will be healed, the planet will be back on track after many decades. However, it all ends up swallowing the economy at the most. Here’s how the pandemic has restricted us not to go back to normal.
Here’s How the Novel Coronavirus Has Reformed Our Lifestyle
1) Greetings:
The world follows various greeting cultures, some European countries hug each other to show gratitude while some people kiss to welcome, cultures may vary from country to country. But with an increasing number of coronavirus cases, almost all the countries have implemented strict social distancing guidelines to halt the spread of COVID-19. With the advice of health experts, global health agencies have urged people to opt for elbow bumps over a handshake or any other way of greeting that involves physical contact. Even the daily routine has been badly affected by the pandemic as the people have asked to maintain social distancing there as well.
2) Hygiene
This is the first thing to be transformed after the outbreak as the center for disease control has requested people around the world to maintain high-level hygiene excluding washing their hands for at least 20 seconds every 3 hours or whenever they come back.
It seems that face masks would be an integral part of our life as of now, everyone is urged to wear face masks to prevent the new novel coronavirus. Sanitization is the only precaution to fight against the coronavirus pandemic. Reports show that people have stocked hygiene products as data shows up to 73% hike in the sales of hand Sanitizers, while the sales of thermometers and face masks increased 46% and 87% respectively.
There is no doubt in saying that the new COVID-19 pandemic has taught people to be more conscious about their hygiene as the only way to stay safe.
3) Party & Functions
Any type of public and religious gathering is restricted to the majority of public health and some sorts of stay-at-home and social distancing guidelines. Numerous festivals have been either postponed or affected by the coronavirus outbreak across the world.
The joy and colors of the festivals have faded since the outbreak started expanding. COVID-19 has affected the way we were celebrating and meeting. However, it has reformed the way we entertain, celebrate and meet people.
4) Travelling
Both international and domestic travelling is restricted due to the coronavirus outbreak. Many countries have implemented level 4 advisory in which travelling remains restricted.
Summer vacations are here, but without travelling, vacations don’t feel any special. And it feels that Summer Vacations 2020 will no longer exist due to the coronavirus outbreak. Even after the lockdown relaxations, it will remain the same as the travelling will nurture under the clouds of COVID-19. And according to a report, the United States may have to continue social distancing till 2020 as the graph is increasing day by day. As of now, airports, railways stations and roads, all have been isolated and this is probably the worst thing ever, worse even than a nightmare.
5) Educational Institutes and Corporations
The role of students is developing the nation and the pandemic has burst with it’s dark clouds over the future of the nation. Worldwide universities, educational institutes, and schools are either closed or switched to distance learning.
Major countries, India, China, Russia, and The United States where the hot spot of the pandemic occurred, have closed schools and universities for an extended period, with millions of students impacted globally.
Distance learning has been adopted, however, it won’t last forever. Also, the pandemic has affected worldwide businesses as all small business and multinational corporations have implemented work from home policy and asked their employees to work remotely.
In other words, the pandemic crisis makes bad things worse. From the economy shut down to mankind, coronavirus will leave the social functions on the worst side over the past decades. “In a totally rational world, you might assume that an international pandemic would lead to greater internationalism,” says the historian Mike Davis, a renowned American chronicler of the disasters incubated by globalisation. It feels that we will have to learn to live with social distancing, we need to be habitual to live under the threat of COVID-19.
