Looking Back on the Coronavirus Pandemic - An Imaginary, Revisionist History

by Madeleine Kando

This is a satire based on an article entitled ‘The Deadly

Polio Epidemic and Why It Matters for Coronavirus’

The current 2050 Nipah pandemic may feel new to many of us, but it is strangely familiar to those who lived through the Coronavirus epidemic of the early 21st century.

The Coronavirus virus a.k.a. Covid19, arrived each winter, striking without warning. We knew how the virus was transmitted but there was uncertainty about its origin. There were wild theories that the virus had been purposely released from a lab in China. At the time, there was no known cure or vaccine.

Parents stopped sending their children to school for fear they would “catch coronavirus.” Swimming pools and movie theaters, beaches and shops were closed.

Because of a shortage of personal protective equipment (PPE), health workers would work without protection to save many a person’s life. The elderly, who seemed to be most at risk from the disease, were isolated in nursing homes and sometimes left to die without treatment.

The number of Covid19 cases in the U.S. peaked at 2 million, resulting in 103,000 deaths. Those who were critically ill with this highly infectious disease ended up intubated and were often left with permanent lung damage.

Ultimately, the coronavirus was conquered in 2022 by a vaccine. Donald Trump, who was our President at the time, signed an executive order forbidding the inventor from patenting his work, saying the vaccine belonged to the people and that to patent it would be like “patenting the sun.”

The national leadership under President Trump was commendable. After he made the heroic offer to have the vaccine tested on his three sons, neighbors and acquaintances volunteered for “the shot,” even when no one knew if it would work.

Because of President Trump’s wise decision to share the vaccine with other countries, especially China, the world economy was given a special boost. By 2023, the coronavirus scare had become a faint memory.

Donald Trump, who himself survived a severe case of infection and had to carry a portable oxygen tank on his back during press conferences and speeches, announced that he had donated most of his fortune to support the treatment of coronavirus victims. He said he would rather die poor than have millions of deaths on his presidential conscience.

The Coronavirus pandemic truly was a time when the public trusted the medical community and had faith in our government. That is an idea we need to resurrect during these difficult 2050 Nipah times. leave comment here