Coronavirus or Love in the time of pandemia.
Courtesy of: Google Images It has been a few of months since my last post. This can perhaps be explained by a few factors: general, not always productive, busy-ness, slumber, lack of inspiration, or resistance to blog for the sake of blogging. However, the global pandemia brings up phenomena hard to ignore. I hoped to get some insights from Gabriel García Márquez ' Love in the time of cholera ; unfortunately, they closed the local library before I could check it out! What one can say about what is happening? It seems that this pandemia is a global phenomenon: it is not personal, it is not national, it is not religious. It seems to affect both poor and rich, a truly universal equalizer! From what is being reported, it looks like a purge of people who are old and frail, and, judging from the glimpses of what is shown on TV, people who are also overweight. Though individual losses are hard to bear, there is nothing particularly cruel about this process in a broader sense;...