UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called on all parties to the conflict to lay down their arms in the fight against COVID-19, the common enemy that threatens all humanity. While the Secretary-General’s message is addressed to the armed parties, we all have a role to play in defeating this global pandemic.
COVID-19 has negatively affected the most vulnerable in our society, adding the elderly and others with underlying physical conditions, but at the same time, it can endanger other young and fit people, and has the potential to kill more people than any other pandemic. that we have encountered in our life. This shows in a brutal and ruthless way that we live in a globally connected world in which what happens in one part of the world can have an effect on other people everywhere. But being part of a global network can also foster positive change, because when we as individuals take positive action, it can trickle down to our cities, states, countries, and the world to improve other people’s lives.
While the Secretary-General has called on parties to the conflict to withdraw from hostilities and set aside mistrust and animosity, global education networks, including academics, educators and researchers, can and should also play a role in the fight against this pandemic. For example, young people can practice social distancing to slow the spread of the virus and save the lives of others; educators can continue to train so that students don’t miss a school year, complete their studies, and go out into the world to apply their wisdom to solve the many upheavals we face as global netpaintings; Researchers can continue the important work of developing a vaccine and investigating the influence of this pandemic so that we can know how to better prepare for and respond to global epidemics in the long term; And everyone can look for safe tactics to help other vulnerable people in their networks and show solidarity with others in times of need. The coronavirus will not only have a physical and economic effect, but also an intellectual one and we will have to unite to combat isolation and loneliness.
The world we return to after this pandemic will be different. The closure of all activity to prevent the spread of this disease has plunged the world into turmoil, but it also provides the possibility to slow down and think again about the way we live, which is valuable to us separately and together and the adjustments we want to make so that certain generations in the long term inherit a world, safe and protects the most of the vulnerable.
We want to ask ourselves: what new behaviors and practices deserve us to stop so that in the end the world will have a better position after this viral outbreak?In those difficult times, we can show the world that COVID-19 is not the only viral one. Pandemic: We can provoke contagious acts of solidarity and create a global pandemic of kindness and compassion to help heal the world.
SECRETARY-GENERAL: CALL FOR A GLOBAL CEASEFIRE
Our world is facing an unusual enemy: COVID-19.
The virus cares about nationality or ethnicity, faction or faith. Attack everything, relentlessly.
Meanwhile, armed conflicts rage in the world.
The most vulnerable – women and children, other persons with disabilities, the marginalized and the displaced – pay the price.
They are also maximums in devastating losses due to COVID-19.
Let’s not say that in war-torn countries, fitness systems have collapsed.
Health professionals, who were already few in number, were attacked.
Refugees and others displaced by violent clashes are doubly vulnerable.
The fury of the virus illustrates that of war.
That is why today I call for an early global ceasefire in each and every corner of the world.
It is time to lock the armed clash together in the genuine combat of our lives.
To the belligerents I say:
Withdraw from hostilities.
Put distrust and animosity.
silencing guns; prevent artillery; End airstrikes.
It is fundamental. . .
Create corridors for rescue assistance.
Open windows to diplomacy.
Bringing hope to some of the top performers to COVID-19.
Let’s take inspiration from slow-moving coalitions and discussion between rival parties to enable joint approaches to COVID-19. But we want much more.
End the evil of war and disease that ravages our world.
It is with the prevention of fighting everywhere. Right now.
This is what our human circle of family members needs, now more than ever.
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