Quo Vadis, Corona?

No evil lasts a hundred years.

Agustín Muñoz-Sanz
6 min readMar 1, 2021

On the current pandemic, saturation affects the general population and front-line health care providers. There is a fed-up among people about SARS-CoV-2 and its many circumstances: political, economic, media, and health. All we need is breath!

It is not prudent playing to be Nostradamus or pretending to guess the future as a vulgar XXI Century’s seer. SARS CoV-2 has demonstrated an unquestionable capacity to surprise. From its natural origin to the ways of contagion.

The seer Michel de Nôtre-Dame, aka Nostradamus (1503–1566). Credit: Telemundo

Even so, there are reasonable predictions about this small microbe. A virus that paralyzed the blue planet one year ago. The new virus is a tiny piece of genetic material with no life of its own that changed human history. With its mutations, human beings’ lives also mutated. The virus is small, but a bully.

I set out five questions in the following paragraphs.

1. Where the hell is the virus’s origin?

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Agustín Muñoz-Sanz

Medical Doctor (Infectious Diseases specialist/Professor of Medicine) and writer (narrative, theater).