Why COVID19 Will Never End
on a cold day
in the month of december 2019 a
discovery was made
the first human case of coven 19 was
reported by medical officials in the
city of wuhan china
this virus spread across the nation then
subsequently across the continent
eventually is spread across the world
living every day
in fear of becoming one of the numbers
on the covet 19 report
meeting up with friends and family with
a barrier we call a computer screen
and praying day by day in hopes of a
coven 19 vaccine we are all familiar
with this story but
what if i told you this virus thing it
will never
end even if covet 19 itself was to be
eradicated today
we would still be living at risk
over the past few decades a lot of new
infectious diseases have been emerging
and of these emerging diseases they have
been mostly zoonotic diseases
which means that these are diseases that
are transmitted from animals to humans
out of these zoonotic diseases a lot of
them are rabies
cytokinesis and also phylloviruses such
as ebola cova-19 is also zoonotic
disease itself
zoonotic diseases are transmitted
through various different methods
one of the most obvious being direct
contact with a contaminated animal
these diseases can be contracted through
oral transfer
animal bites and also fluid
contaminations of cuts and wounds
however our harm that we inflict on
nature directly proliferates our chances
of contracting diseases through this
method how exactly
we are constantly enhancing the
greenhouse effect warming up the earth’s
atmosphere and also consuming resources
at a rate that is detrimental to species
habitats
from deforestation to forest fires
overfishing
to melting of the sea ice caps many
animals are forced to leave their
habitats and search for food and shelter
take a look at this polar bear in
contrast to how we usually picture them
playing amongst the arctic tundras here
we see it searching for food in a pile
of human generated trash
because they no longer have a place to
hunt on and human residential areas are
continuing to expand
the probability of in of a polar bear
and a human
interacting will evidently increase and
this will result in an
increased chance of virus transmission
from these polar bears to humans
another example of this is extreme
climate and weather
such as sudden change of dry season to
wet rainfall season
this causes a large production of fruits
and different species
such as apes and bats will come together
in close proximity
to consume these fruits diseases can
spread across species
and evidently increases the chance of it
from spreading to human beings
so through all this information we can
conclude with the fact that climate
change
and health is undeniably interconnected
however
our biggest flaw as a human race is not
merely
our inability to eradicate such global
issues
but it is our inability to draw
connections
our inability to draw lines between two
different topics and in simpler terms
our misunderstandings when it comes to
cause and effect
and this ladies and gentlemen is a virus
itself
this virus is present in our society and
will never
leave until we recognize its presence
this is the virus of conventional
thinking
so i am a high school student and i
study around six subjects
some scientists some humanities ever
since a young age i was taught to
classify topics into different subjects
for example viruses and diseases belong
in biology
and climate change and global warming
belong in geography or environmental
sciences this causes a lot of students
to forget how to apply knowledge from
one subject into another
and this is a type of conventional
thinking that is called linear thinking
here in the powerpoint you can see a
better idea of what i mean
on your left you can see a diagram of a
linear thinking system
where a results in b is very simple
global warming results in a rise in
temperature
however this simplicity is essentially
the problem here the simplicity
makes it very difficult for individuals
to recognize more than one cause and
relationship
within one topic however on your right
you can see a more complex
web of relationships it’s called systems
thinking
with this complex web we can denote the
fact that global warming
results in an increase of temperature
but we don’t stop there
therefore it causes species to relocate
and hence increases the chance
for humans and animals to interact at
the end we could conclude with the fact
that it
aids in virus transmission
another example of conventional thinking
is only skimming across the topic
sorry skimming across the surface of
topics
the iceberg theory some of you may have
seen it before some of you may have not
what it essentially represents is the
top of the iceberg
is the most obvious consequences of an
issue and the bottom of the iceberg is
the least
obvious it’s very obvious that global
warming causes an
increase of temperature it is very
obvious that global warming
causes negative impacts towards
biodiversity but at the end of the
iceberg once we
truly realize and acknowledge the end of
the iceberg that’s when we
really start to identify the
significance of an issue
today we can conclude with the fact that
conventional thinking
is a virus that we must all work
together to tackle
however beyond covet beyond vaccines
beyond viruses beyond global warming
this virus is detrimental to our growth
in political
scientific technological economical and
societal advancements
today i’ve provided two vaccines for you
one being looking at the end of the
iceberg
and one being systems thinking however
just like every other vaccine and virus
it is up to you as individuals to take
this cure or not thank you