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COVID-19, or call it novel coronavirus, has arrived.
It came from nowhere, its mortality rate low, that of the common flu, but remarkably contagious.
Abruptly, our world stopped.
Almost all proverbial liberties have been taken away from the people. So fast, and without plebiscites, referendums, debates. Police, drones, surveillance, have rapidly been employed against the citizens, virtually everywhere.
And then, almost from the start of the pandemic, the borders began closing down. Borders, which we used to be told, were there to stay open, forever.
And the international, or for some of us internationalist life, was suddenly arrested.
The changes were implemented so rapidly, that most of us had no time to react. We watched, helplessly, as frontiers were closed, airlines cancelled flights, and the movement of people came to an abrupt stop.
Across the border lines, disappearing beyond the horizon, were our families, or loved ones, our colleagues and comrades, as well as countries and cities for which we longed for.
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