What we’ve done?
The number of COVID 19 new cases is increasing sharply, concomitant with the number of deaths. Total cases worldwide more than 27 billion, with the number of deaths more than 800 thousand. In our motherland, for the last few days, new cases reach more than three thousand cases, and the country's positivity rate 14% approximately. According to the chart, we can see that our spike always goes up, and hasn't reached the peak to thus go down like Germany or Italia which already passed the first wave and now suffering from the second wave. Although we knew that our country's total cases not as great as the United States or India, our testing rate was far below the WHO's recommended testing rate. We were only able to hold the PCR test about 35.6% of the testing rate recommended by WHO because of our laboratory and human resources limitation.
Maybe at the moment, most of us choose to ignore COVID-19 news, especially the number of new cases or deaths. Because of our fear to face reality, we chose to hide behind our coping mechanism which is ignorance.
Yes, we're afraid right now. We're afraid of many things because of this pandemic. We're anxious about the end of the pandemic that is uncertain. We're worried about our beloved family condition. We're apprehensive about our future business condition. We're indecisive to take a choice related to a lot of things. We're locked up in the cave called endless fearfulness.
And because of that too, some of us would like to think that we're okay. We thought that new normal means back to life before this pandemic. We chose to go shopping like everything is alright. We chose to discuss and eat in a crowded place. We chose to go out without considering the protocol. We chose to travel to another city without pondering it before. Moreover, we already decided to watch a movie in the cinema even before it reopens. We're crazy, right?
And what the craziest thing was we blamed others for this pandemic. We blamed the government for not being able to make tight rules and suppress the new cases. We blamed doctors and healthcare providers for not take care of patients properly. We blamed some civilians who didn't obey the health protocol. We blamed them who claimed to discover a fake vaccine. We even made some theories about the conspiration of WHO and China.
Related to blame others, last midnight, I got a new lesson from a foreign lecturer. He said, on the last day when we get our decision book from Allah, if it's written that we don't enter heaven (the worst case-naudzubillah), we shouldn't blame anyone. We should blame ourselves and consider that we're guilty. My friend, according to that, even in the worst scenario, it indecent for us to blame others.
Instead of it, why don't we ask ourself, what we've been done during this pandemic?
What we've been doing to limit the spread of the virus? What we've been doing to protect our beloved family? What we've been doing to help those who jobless? What we've been doing to help the healthcare provider take care of the patients? What we've been doing to help the poor get proper personal protective equipment? What we've been doing to inform people who can't get the latest COVID-19 news? What we've been doing to help our younger brothers/sisters/junior to get proper academic classes?
What we've been done?
So,
I just want to remind my self, my beloved family, my friend, and all of the people who read this writing, let's stay at home, obey the health protocol, and keep physical distancing. Please choose to take food home rather than dine-in. Please stay at your home than go out, except for really necessary matters. Please choose online meetings instead of discussing them offline. Please avoid the crowded place, and obey health protocol.
Let's help the surveillance team to limit the spread of the virus. Let's help the government to suppress the number of new cases together. Let's help the healthcare provider so they won't extremely be exhausted and the facilities can cover all of the patients. Let's encourage each other to conquer this pandemic together.
Because this pandemic wouldn't be stopped only by one person role, or the president's role, but our roles, together.











