Takeaway(s) from covid-19?

On an individual level, what is one thing you will take away forever from the covid-19 pandemic? Will it be seeing your loved ones more often? Accepting you can't control everything? Washing your hands after you go to the toilet and before eating? Realizing there are not enough nurses and teachers who have always been underpaid and overworked?

I don't know what I would or will take away on an individual level. I pretty much accepted mask-wearing and the other measures to contain covid; I wash my hands when I should; being thousands of kms away from loved ones is normal for me and the reality of nurses and teaching is not new to me. Not having the possibility to travel internationally like pre-covid is starting to get to me I think. I think it's a direct consequence of covid as opposed to a symptom of something else.

Travelling is part of my fabric and flying, the actual act of flying, feels great. It's so familiar. I don't get homesick, I am not scared of going to places I have never been before. When you live in a place as tiny as this and travelling is in your blood, it would be nice to know you have the possibility to leave and return like before covid. But I don't.

On a global level, covid has just proven by being in your face facts I already knew - inequality is everywhere, incompetency is everywhere, economy seems to be more important than health for some governments (hey, idiot governments, how do you have a domestic and/or global economy with sick or dead people? It takes at least 18 years until you can contribute to society fully) and more.

I think WHO, whilst not perfect should be able to not just advise/recommend on a global scale: it should be able to implement and enforce legally on a global scale; impose fines on a global scale and the like. It is still the global voice on health expertise but it doesn't have the power to practically contain covid via the governments. For example it cannot stop the rich governments from buying all the available vaccines that the poorer or poor governments need.

Of course, I have no knowledge but this is also why I am not in government or am not an employee of WHO or any other powerful authority. No way do I have the knowledge nor skill to make decisions like that.

Then again, as for travel, technically I can, I just need enough time and money, excluding if I end up staying in a place longer than planned. You can save money and time for tickets, quarantine/isolation, accommodation but not for changes with an indefinite time-frame due to covid.

- A.M.