It’s undeniable that the infamous COVID-19 has left us all disequilibrated. With uncertainty tainting practically everything around us, it took a while but many of us got used to the “unprecedented/uncertain times”. A roll out of bed to class or work seemed perpetual. But now, the month of July felt like a Band-Aid was ripped…
Some superheroes do not wear capes. Frontline workers are those superheroes in our lives. To all the firefighters, policemen, grocery workers, retail workers, doctors, nurses, and other essential and frontline workers, I would like to express a heavy THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart! Even during the toughest times of our pandemic, the…
Reopening, returning, recovering: this is what we have all been wishing for as we wait isolated in our homes. Everyone is talking about adapting to a “new normal”, but deep down, all we want is the old “normal” back. But how? How will we return to a situation before all this? …
The world is in quite the situation right now. While all of us want to mess around on the internet (as I have been doing for the past two months), the looming unease of the COVID-19 pandemic continually presses to our minds. The world seems so disorganized, nothing seems certain, and no one has any…
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an entirely new set of challenges to collectives and individuals internationally. Many of us are only able to peak into the lives of others via one dimensional social media posts or what they feel comfortable telling us on calls. And while seeing others can be uplifting the worry that you’re…
Ever since the government closed all schools and recommended everyone to stay at home for the sake of the country, I decided to try out a couple of new things. I first tried to draw perfect circles, because I completely wreck any form of art. It did not go well. I then tried to bond…
At this special point in time, all of a sudden, what was unimaginable has become mundane, and what was ordinary is now extraordinary. We are stumbling through this unusual time. People from all over the world remain just as different a month ago as they are today, but somehow, we now share one more universal…
In 2015, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a series of guidelines on disease naming. They included useful practices to summarize symptoms and reduce fear. They also explicitly mentioned that diseases must not be named after locations, people, animals, or cultures. This was all done in an effort to reduce the stigma and insult related…
The World Health Organization (WHO) recently declared that the Coronavirus is now a “global health emergency”. There are about 2800 people dead from illness, (at the time this article was written) Canada now has 13 confirmed cases. But what exactly IS the Coronavirus? Coronavirus is a large family of viruses originated from Wuhan, China; and…