The Year 2020 has been hilarious

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.