This column appears every two weeks in Foster’s Daily Democrat and Tuskegee News. Since this is mostly what the world is focusing on right now, Guy Trammell, an African-American boy from Tuskegee, Alabama, and Amy Miller, a white woguy from South Berwick, Maine, write about the year of COVID-19.
By Amy Miller
My God, in no time we will be starting our fourth year since COVID has become a family word. And yet, in some ways, we are more than ever. Do we isolate ourselves if we are a contact?Or just a close contact?Or nothing at all? If we have health problems and the control is positive, do we check back after five days or just wait for the symptoms to disappear once five days have passed?Are we listening to the CDC or are we respecting the recommendation of our cautious top friends?
We are now getting closer to living lives as we did before March 2020, but we know less about what to do when we get sick, exposed, or close to a vulnerable person. We seem to know less than ever what the long term holds. .
With the arrival of winter and the return of the flu with its worst fury, we sneeze and whistle with viruses that may or may not be COVID, which may or may not make us sick more than if we had contracted COVID. At this point, it is even difficult for us to remember how many years or winters have passed, how many variants we have gone through, even how many reinforcements we have or deserve to have.
I’m tired of puzzles. I’m frustrated that I didn’t write a book or erase my house during the nearly 17,520 hours I spent at home between March 2020 and March 2022, when I started leaving the house more. And I’m angry because some other people think that getting vaccinated, or not, is a political statement.
Let’s take inventory for a moment of what we know, data from the New York Times. By early November, some 6. 6 million people worldwide and 1. 1 million in the United States had died from COVID. That includes 2,698 in Maine and 20,558 in Alabama. Consistent with the outlook, that’s another 199 people, out of 100,000 people dying in Maine and 419, out of 100,000 in Alabama, compared to 328 in the U. S. Fewer than 100 worldwide.
On this planet, more than 5. 4 billion people have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. The U. S. The U. S. ranks 50th in the vaccination rate. At least one thing doesn’t matter to me. The vaccine saves lives.
By Guy Trammel Jr.
Booker T. Washington, a constant and informed student. As a child applying for Mrs. Ruffner, and being informed in the house, I would ask her for a favor if she finished early. Do not pass the house or spend the game outside. No, Booker was looking to spend time in his private library, read his books, and learn from them. Arriving in Tuskegee in June 1881, he traveled the county’s hot, dusty roads to meet other people and learn about the local culture.
He hired the most notable blacks in his fields of study to teach at the Tuskegee Institute. He was never intimidated by the fact that they knew more about a specific topic than he did. of Tuskegee deserved the maximum productive of the productive maximums to prepare them to replace their world. Booker, his teacher, continues to learn.
As we face the winter of SARS 2 (the virus that causes COVID-19) around the world, other people are rushing back to doing what they did before the pandemic. Movie theaters are open, restaurants and clubs closed are open, as there are other closed events full of people, all with few or no restrictions.
I am grateful for our Macon County Community Partners Task Force, with volunteers who travel weekly to our county and warn us to stay fit and make sensible fitness decisions.
Over the past two years, flu and bloodless seasons have seen unprecedented levels of infection, as SARS 2 mitigation prevents infection with other airborne diseases. Gargle when you get home.
According to Our World in Data, the United States (332 million inhabitants) has recorded 99,809,767 cases of COVID, with 1,099,494 dead and 97,326,533 recovered. The United States has 68. 5% vaccinated against SARS 2.
According to the World Health Organization, the African continent (1. 2 billion inhabitants) has registered 12,423,000 COVID, with 256,000 dead and 9,859,174 cured. Overall, Africa is 24% vaccinated against SARS 2.
These data show that African countries have coped better with the pandemic. So, are we like Booker T. Washington and we are informed from Africa?Some have tried to attribute Africa’s impact to poor data collection. This forecast is inconsistent, considering that in February 2022, the CDC was found to have hidden information about SARS 2 from the public. Some data showed that vaccinated 18- to 49-year-olds did not want boosters; His immune formula was sufficient. The CDC has admitted it, but American knowledge is not tested as African knowledge was.
African nations deal with physical emergencies with innovations or even repurposed medicines. Senegal has designated some hospitals only for SARS 2, so that its other hospitals can treat normal patients. Senegal created enthusiasts on 3-D printers for $60, a fraction of the popular charge of enthusiasts.
Africa gave birth to humanity, so will humanity show humility and inform itself of Africa’s wisdom?
Amy and Guy can be reached at colorusconnected@gmail. com