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Heroes of tHe Pandemic How we adaPted to tHe

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new normal

Suhana Shrestha

Who knew that eating a bat could turn the whole world upside down?
It would cover the whole world’s faces with a piece of fabric. Well not
sure that the story was real but the effect was surely real. After De-
cember, with the welcoming of 2020 also sneaked in a virus popularly
known as covid -19. This virus was like the game of lock and key but
here initially there wasn’t any key. This highly contagious, life-threaten-
ing, and horrifying virus was spreading like wildfire but instead, there
wasn’t any water to let it down. At the moment, the whole world was
in disbelief and terror. Nobody knew what to do. However soon there
were studies done and preclusive methods were discovered, not that it
helped dramatically but it did, however, help somewhere or the other.
With the death toll inclining and the light of better circumstances de-
clining the country had gone for a lockdown. Life had changed. Some
were not affected so much however most were suffering badly. With
the economy lowering, employment slipping, etc. it was a nightmare.

The change had shaken everybody and it wasn’t obviously easy for any of
us to adapt to it. We were left with no other choices, whether we liked it or
not. Schools were shut, offices were closed, shops were banned, everything
went to zoom and online further. The economy was drifting downwards
like water in a waterfall. The country and its people were not happy at all.

Studies have proved that it takes a normal human brain to adapt to some-
thing a maximum of 21 days and here we had months and months. Ini-
tially, it was really hard for all of us to adapt to the new, however as time
passed things got easier to do. With constant usage and doings of the
newly introduced methods and processes, we all adapted to it. In short,
all the extra things that were happening are now considered as the “new
normal”. Today if somebody asked me to go to school and study physically
I would refuse it because of how much I have adapted to this environment.

To answer how we did it in a nutshell, we did it by practicing the new
methods again and again for which external factors such as patience,
courage, mental stability, etc. do come into action that thus causes a bet-
ter reaction. Therefore this is our new normal and we are used to it now.