Coronavirus — A New Kind of War: Adaptivity

Below follows the e-mail sent to the New York Times Newspaper on May 3rd, 2020.

Abaixo, segue o e-mail enviado ao Jornal New York Times em 03/05/2020.

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Next, the e-mail transcription.
A seguir, Transcrição do e-email.

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We all have been living for a long time with the expectation that a pandemic issue was a matter of time.

Movies far beyond fed our imagination but we always think that they will keep their place just there, in the future.

I think it is time to give people a fair debate about our lives because politicians usually take care of theirs.

Your newspaper would have a great role in this because maturing thoughts everywhere is one of the best ways of sticking together with the reader in his daily thoughts.

Debate if a virus came out from a lab by accident or not won't lead us to make our lives keep going, nor will help thinking that stopping a nation would lead us to a better solution.

Let's do the maths.

What will damage more: the virus or the spread of poverty and desperation?

What weapon is more effective than the one that weakens another nation by itself while the enemy gets out faster from the checkmate?

What will rest after all of this is gone?

How many will dye indirectly (or not) due to the financial causes of an economic breakdown?

After all, does all this lockdown work?

Will we be immune for another spread?

Wasn't the life that changed becoming more fragile?

Why could doctors, nurses, and the rest of the staff involved do their work?
Shouldn't we all treat our jobs like doctors and nurses do to keep life going following their example, taking the same cautions?

Shouldn't we be preparing our education to change the style of our lives before our lives are gone?

What do we do in the future? Stop again?

Those nations where people learn how to keep going with their lives as the doctors do will prevail over the others that must stop because they do not adapt fast. "Dinos" have gone that way... they tell us.

It won't be just one stop since there is no guarantee that something like this will come back and back again, maybe in different forms, biologically mutated by the real nature or by the man's nature.

Mainly now, since if it was a leak from a lab, they've learned the way to do this.

Trump and Bolsonaro (president of my country) are not politicians and they are not doing what they should in the right way that it should be done.

We are now in a new kind of war — adaptivity.

Dinos have gone... hadn't they!
Thank you for this opportunity.



André Dias

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil