{"id":7780,"date":"2020-04-07T16:35:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-07T16:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejetboy.com\/?p=7780"},"modified":"2020-04-08T09:27:58","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T09:27:58","slug":"the-undercurrents-of-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thejetboy.com\/the-undercurrents-of-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"The undercurrents of COVID-19"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I still remember the early weeks of January when a friend of mine was making an excel sheet to track the global spread of Corona. We would take coffee breaks to discuss our lives and then come up with scenarios where Corona would breach Chinese borders to become a Pandemic. None of us are epidemiologists, we are a bunch of aerospace engineers, but given the impact it might have on our industry we were very keen on tracking the virus. Armed with the John Hopkins virus dashboard<\/a> and my experience in Nigeria during the 2014 Ebola outbreak, we would predict at max 1000 cases outside of China and followed it up with \u201cwe would still be doing our thesis in case the world decides to end\u201d. In January, even a thousand cases seemed alarmist, up until early March I was in the United States for a competition and the only Corona we cared for was Extra or Lite. Fast forward to the present day, my friend who was making the excel sheet has been tested positive for Corona, global cases have crossed the million mark, 1.3 billion people in my country have been put under lockdown and, to put it mildly, has become unpredictable, the only thing that hasn\u2019t is the fact that we are still doing our thesis. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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