Survival or future dreams?: THE SILENT MESSAGE THAT CORONA VIRUS HAS BROUGHT TO US.

Spending time taking walks gives your mind to connect with the outside world; nature and superior beings.

Today I woke up at 4 am, took a walk with my dog in the neighborhood just try to think of life and how nature balances itself.

It then dawned on me that am actually growing. I am learning new things and getting to understand things such as disaster response clearly. That is when I realized this is the first "Curfew" I have experienced. This is the first epidemic I have witnessed well since HIV found me to young to understand things.This is the first time I have stayed alone for 2 days just me and my dog in my compound.

Was the government trying to prepare us physically for the total lock down?", I asked myself.

"Is this how it feels like to be under house arrest?, I pondered further. At this time, my dog was Calling for my attention as we walk down this silent residential access road in the forested Karen estate.

"How are others fairing out there? I thought. "Maybe today I need to leave and see what happening.

I went back to the house, dressed, put my mask and left for Karen center on route 11 (walking). To my surprise, life was going on as usual; commuters in the buses heading to town, some even full against the government directive.

What shocks me the most is that even as everyone went doing business as usual having thrown the PRECAUTION directives to the dustbin, the numbers i met on the way wearing my nose mask and gloves were evidently shocked to see me in such state.

This was clear from their strange stares at me. This threw me into other thoughts. "I am doing the right thing? Is this Corona even true in Kenya?. After a while, I met a friend going to work.

"Kwach, how are you?" which means Leopard, how are you. A term used to mean someone who is courageous.

" I'm fine bro, how is Corona taking you?, he responded. By this time I just waved at him even though he wanted me to have a strong hand shake.

Just out of curiosity i just decided to ask him his take on Corona situation and how he responds to it. "Manzee, hii corona ni deadly but the thought of starving just to take precautions against Corona is worse, that is what gives me courage to get out, no matter how bad the situation is out here.

"mmm!", I responded. "But why are you not taking precautions like wearing even a mask when you are in the midst of such crowd?" I eagerly asked him.

"Well bro, I will look awkward and out of place if everyone is not in a mask except me. I just trust that no one will spread the virus to me on my way." he responded.

"Safe hustle bro, hustle hard!" I bid him as we depart.

By this time, It was crystal clear to me that perhaps a bigger majority know about how deadly this COVID-19 is, they have heard and seen in the news but because they dont want to look odd and two, because majority live from hand to mouth, so to say; they are not able to withstand a day or two to in self quarantine.

This again threw me into deeper thoughts like "Is this why other countries are loyal to their government directives such as Singaporeans whose government made it a priority to provide for its people?

" And what is our government doing?, 'Do they even know about this?, I asked myself but few answers flowed in.

Life or death?, Survival or future?,So some people would rather die looking for survival rather than persevere for a future life? such questions raced through my mind. This time walking back to the house along this well tarmacked street lit highway.

By the time i was now getting back to the house, so many things were crystal clear in my mind. A lot of revelations presented themselves to me.

I turned on my radio and boom!, Johnson Paris explaining why the world need to respond swiftly to the climate change swiftly the same way governments all over the world are responding to COVID-19 pandemic in a discussion.

The BBC then had a talk on the economic res-session and how the corona virus is affecting the mighty and the small the same.

Now at this time, I was honestly very curious to understand, where is the world heading to? Who is going to save us? what are the key issues that we must stand and fix now.

Two hours later, I found myself writing this article and reviving my old blog that i last updated seven months ago even after setting a plan to write two blog posts weekly. I have now decided to launch back my blog www.roussoss.co.ke to share my daily thoughts on different topics, networks and interactions as we cross through life.

But now that my blog is outdated and i need to fix it with the hosting company. My articles will be available in the following links;

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Regards,

Roussoss Demisse,

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