The whole
year 2020 has been hilarious, you know in a pandemic, natural disasters,
deaths, riots, wildfire, terrorist attacks, near world war, plane crashes,
world economy tanking kind of way. However, I specifically want to focus upon
how this made the third world countries feel like the first world and vice versa.
So as a third world country citizen living in the first world, here I go, in no
particular order –
How the first
world felt like the third world :
1. They came to understand what a travel
ban was. India has still banned flights from Spain and US passport became equivalent
to Uruguay.
2. Third world countries had evacuation
flights from US and Europe.
3. People in IT started arguing with
their managers to send them back from Onsite.
4. Supermarkets ran empty and people
got to know the real meaning of food and essential items shortages.
5. People from other countries called
worried and asked if they could leave.
6. After spending years jeering at the Muslim
countries, their government made it mandatory to wear something in public.
7. Nighttime curfews became a thing.
8. Hospitals were over capacity and people
were sent back because there were no available beds.
9. Citizens of countries having the
strictest immigration laws, wanted to flee their capitals due to a bad situation.
Army had to be called in Madrid, Paris etc. to block the borders.
10. Bill gates foundation had to worry
about anti vaccine people in a totally different continent.
How the third
world felt like the first world :
1. People looked at US police brutality
videos and riots and felt pity for them.
2. People wanted to save the democracy of
the US.
3. WHO praised Dharavi and South Korea’s
pandemic response.
4. They got to watch natural disasters
unfolding in a different country on the TV.
5. Having a horde of endemic diseases
actually helped them fight the pandemic
6. They had to read travel advisories before
travelling to the west.
7. They were disgusted about people not
following rules and not maintaining hygiene in a totally different continent.
8. The 5G – Corona linkers and Corona
deniers made them laugh at people who just don’t get science.
