Dear 2020, the damage you have done is enough [Pulse Editor's Opinion]

I’m ending the 12 months single, holed up in my flat as I work remotely, whereas making do with Lagos’ restricted, boring meals selections.

I can’t step out of my cocoon with out carrying the darn face masks, can’t hug folks and may’t drink a beer on the native pub to avoid wasting my life.

Like the remainder of humanity, I’ve grow to be insular, anti-social, bored, more and more irritated, hooked to my gadget screens and broke. Yikes! This wasn’t how we thought the 12 months was going to go, however right here we’re.

I bear in mind breaking the information of Nigeria’s index COVID-19 case on Pulse Nigeria. It was just a bit previous midnight in Lagos. As we deliberated on methods to report the unsavoury improvement, my colleague Steve and I knew the world we reside in was going to alter endlessly.

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Eleven months after, shut to 2 million folks have died from the novel coronavirus globally, with some 85 million contaminated. Regardless that there’s good news around vaccines to place us all out of our distress, scientists should not so positive once we’d attain herd immunity within the wider inhabitants.

Within the interim, we’re dropping family and friends by the hour, companies are shutting store, poverty charges are rising particularly in low revenue international locations; and increasingly more persons are submitting for unemployment advantages within the developed world–even as meals banks are milling with increasingly more folks.

All of us want a break from 2020 and all of its issues. We want to have the ability to socialise once more, maintain arms once more, journey once more, get the vaccination in relation to our neck of the woods, put on the masks, wash these arms and proceed preserving secure.

Which is why I’m wanting ahead to 2021 with some cautious optimism. All of us want to show the nook. And for those who survived this 12 months, it actually is a few large deal. Congratulations are properly so as.

We’ll go once more and provides this marriage factor one other attempt subsequent 12 months. Who is aware of?

Could all of us by no means expertise a 12 months fairly like 2020 ever once more.

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*Pulse Editor’s Opinion is the point of view of an Editor at Pulse. It doesn’t signify the opinion of the Organisation Pulse.