January 23, 2020. That day, Wuhan is locked down tight. His public transport is suspended, his road trips are cut off, and supermarkets are emptied.
11 million people confined that were observed between the windows of their houses. In ten days, they built an exclusive hospital for COVID patients. Then, there was talk of “a mysterious respiratory infection” that already affected 600 people, with 17 who had already died.
The virus reached Spain and led us to a total shutdown. We got to be locked up for three months and eight days in which we changed our way of seeing the world.
This virus that has changed the rules of the game and has so far left close to 350 million infections and more than 5.5 million deaths. The COVID Zero strategy that is applied in China, with confinements and stricter measures, has been discarded by Europe, which continues to focus everything on vaccination.
Mario Twitchell is an accomplished author and journalist, known for his insightful and thought-provoking writing on a wide range of topics including general and opinion. He currently works as a writer at 247 news agency, where he has established himself as a respected voice in the industry.
