We had it perfect. We had freedom of choice, speech, act, everything the human kind had ever wanted. We had access to knowledge, to money, to wealth, to luxury. Sounds like a dream come true, sounds like a tale our great-grandparents used to tell our grandparents as a bedtime story. Who would’ve guessed that we, the ones that fought this out, will be the ones to exploit and shatter it? Not too long ago, I was full of hope regarding my future prospects. I thought there’s nothing I couldn’t do if I can dream it. Today, I am not so sure. My country has and had a bunch of flaws, it is fucked up, distorted, precarious and a bit twisted, but it is mine, it is ours or at least it was. My nation had been through the pits of hell and we made it back from there, we became a democracy after decades or oppression, censorship and communism. Nobody thought it is possible, we all felt that we are doomed. However, things have gotten better and more aligned, we got our liberty back and we were on a great track. Most of us were still unsatisfied, so they left as soon as they were able to book a plane ticket and never returned, because they were sure a better a more arcadian future awaits for them abroad. Maybe they were all right, I was one of them but I was ordered back due to my love for family and the mother land.
The art of war changes the game to biological warfare
In 2020 this brand-new virus called corona was surfacing common knowledge. It was a weird flu-like virus spreading in and from China. Nobody took it seriously in the beginning of the new decade. We all thought that this isn’t something that would hurt us, after all it was the Chinese’s virus. In mid or late February, the situation worsened and people got a little agitated over it, but not us. I was in Madrid, one of the most breathtaking cities of Europe, I was on my Erasmus semester, living my best life. I have never had such high hopes for a school year, I thought my life will turn inside out in the best possible sense. Technically I was right, or at least half right. When me and my friends there heard about this new insanity, we all thought that we will all be just fine, since our generation never had to overcome any major obstacles, after all we were born into the welfare state, the liberty of movement and speech, we had it all. We lived like the Americans in a way more culturally loaded surrounding it was the perfect combo. So naturally, everybody was skeptical. Then it became our reality pretty fast. By early March I was back in Hungary. For the record, I’m not a person who backs down from a good fight, I have never been afraid of anything, not even of dying. The only thing I constantly dread to lose was and is my loved ones. So, if I ran for the hills, you can imagine how desperate the situation was. The world stopped for a few beats, everybody locked themselves into their homes, waiting for the governments and the European Union to tell us when we can respire. By the beginning of July, we got the green light, we were free once again or so we thought. This was the time of truth, the time to think about others for a change rather than ourselves, a time to protect our communities, loved ones, nations. And humanity once again failed tragically. All we should’ve done was to stay within our own borders to stop the spread of this and we couldn’t even amount to that. It was like keeping a wild animal in a cage for about 3 months and then letting it out into the wild to run free again. In my opinion the results were astonishingly abominable. If you think about it when there’s a kidnapped girl who gets out of her holding, she has a hard time adjusting to her old, natural habitat. I was kind of expecting that result, since the danger hadn’t passed. Instead all people did was buy plane tickets and travel to all the places they could get a flight to. In all fairness they really couldn’t use all their vacation days at work so who am I to judge them for their reactions. I was disappointed and numb by the insensitivity, irresponsibility and the level of ignorance I witnessed. It is the beginning of September and my country closed its borders, we don’t let people in and if we have the audacity to leave, we are obliged to stay in quarantine after we return, if we do… I am not a genius; I don’t have an outstanding and extraordinary IQ nor am I a polymath. I am just an average university student, trying to get by, looking for love and hoping for an arcadian future for her children. Although, even with my capabilities and credibility I was still able to calculate the results of this newly regained liberty. And daunting news, I was right. We are on the verge of the second wave of the virus, our schools and offices will probably be completely closed within a few weeks. I keep hoping for the best and then stand with my hypothetical dick in my hand out alone in the cold, watching the preposterous results of human stupidity.
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