From waves and tides
I explain a local graphic of the pandemic in a few words.
‘Fortunately, Macondo is not a place but a state of mind that allows you to see what you want to see, and to see it as you want to see it.’
Gabriel García Márquez.
It seems that the current pandemic is near its end. But we still surf on the third wave while looking at the horizon to see if there will come a fourth.
Waves are inseparable from tides. In addition to the sun and moon’s influence, it must consider winds and other circumstances.
The ocean can have a beautiful beach in a sore and, simultaneously, hit through a destructive temporal at the opposite side of the planet.
Infectious pandemics are like tides. Several factors concur in its genesis and evolution. And it also can have different behavior in several and distant places.
Lessons from a graphic.
I will try to explain the following graph by a slight personal view (modified from the original John Hopkins University’s data). The figure shows what happened during 2020 and warns about what could happen again in 2021. The highlighted curve in blue represents…
