By:Stephanie Ochoa (4th Period)
Coronavirus is no big secret, It's all over the world and has striked up in more than thousands of peoples lives and has even taken thousands of lives away in this earth unfortunately. This coronavirus has spread from person to person very quickly.
People all over the world have been in quarantine, have to be six feet away, no socializing, no meets, etc. Things have changed drastically these past couple of months because of this virus also called covid-19. Everything has been closed down as well. As of right now according to a coronavirus tracker, the worldwide confirmed cases is 1,324,907 and with 275,832 recovered and 73,703 deaths. Now in the U.S there are 351,890 confirmed cases and 18,940 recovered and 10,377 deaths. Here in Kentucky there are 1,066 confirmed cases, 306 recovered, and 45
deaths. Now that's just data from today April 6, 2020. But I assure you that by the end of this week or even month, those numbers will increase rapidly. It has changed and affected everybody's life, including mine
Now my life has been quite boring with this whole quarantine and corona stuff going on, but I get it though, it's for our own safety. I remember when this all started I didn't see it as a huge deal until one day me and my mom went to the store and it was packed like it never was before. Things were gone in a flash.
There was no more water anywhere, no more hand sanitizer or even toilet paper!! Things were going wild. I was like this is going to get serious quick. I had plans to do so much this spring break and summer break but only God knows what's going to happen. Because the majority of my plans are already ruined/cancelled. I Had a couple parties I was going to go to but now can't because they've been canceled. I also had friends with their birthdays coming up and I wanted to go out and hang out with them. Seeing people go crazy with all this virus things is kind of scary to be honest. I have no idea when this will end but hopefully it will end soon. Whenever we go out you don't see
much anymore. Like there aren't many cars on the street anymore. But there was actually one day where it was really hot outside and we decided to go to the park for a bike ride where there weren't going to be many people and surprisingly the park had quite a good amount of people in there. I expected there was going to be less because of this whole pandemic but no actually, it seemed like a normal day before this virus but then
it clicked and yes we still are in this whole pandemic world, but didn't seem like it that day. Wow. I've been doing a lot of facetiming and texting my friends because I miss them so much, so now I can't even personally see or hang out with them, so now that's what's left to do. Even every sunday at my church they go on youtube live for service which was first crazy/funny to watch but you know that's the only thing left to do.
Now I not only don't see the bad side but also the good side of this. Now I can spend more time with my family, since I can't go out but it's been ok I guess. We've been playing a lot of games together, we have great conversations together, have movie nights together, so i've been ok with them. Also since i can't even see my friends and i miss them it makes me think and see things i haven't thought of when i'm with them, like for example i'm so blessed to have them and i feel so lucky as well. They make me happy and laugh like non stop. So now looking back at memories, I want this to end. But we'll see how much longer the earth will handle this.
There have been methods/tips to help with coronavirus which has been staying six feet away, washing hands, sanitizing, etc. But also there is not yet a
vaccine or treatment that beats the coronavirus and antibiotics can't help because covid-19 is a viral infection and not bacterial. But if doctors see that symptoms are worsening they will give fluid to reduce risk of dehydration, give medication to execute a fever, and supplement oxygen in more severe cases.