EDITORIAL
As the observant will notice, nature is awakening after a brief but lividly cold winter. We also see hopeful signs that Namibia’s agonising third Covid-19 wave is nearing the end, though it still holds us in its clutches.
The decline in new infections alongside the arrival of a new season awakens a refreshing sliver of hope. We have lost too many. We have felt a wrenching grief and fear that has altered our lives forever.
Government’s loosening of lockdown measures signals a cautiously optimistic bookend to an unimagined time. Those lost are not here to experience it.
The virus has upended everything we knew and has robbed the dead of one of nature’s most enjoyable seasonal shifts.
And yet many of us know that whatever slight hope we may feel could be short-lived.
As the third wave slowly dissipates, leaving in its wake a tsunami of destruction and mourning, news of fourth waves are beginning to emerge.
One cannot help but wonder: Have we seen the worst of Covid-19, or will delta, its most vile mutation to date, be trumped by an even worse one?
Every day, the virus and its effects elicit new answers and more questions.
There is only one thing we know for sure: Until we have reached a stage of widespread immunity, the virus will continue to infect, and kill.
Science tells us at that to prevent a fourth, deadlier wave – and who can even imagine such a thing – we should vaccinate - our only armour, if imperfect, against this deadly disease.
If we line up, despite the at times frustrating lack of vaccines, we can possibly avoid a fourth, even deadlier wave.
The decline in new infections alongside the arrival of a new season awakens a refreshing sliver of hope. We have lost too many. We have felt a wrenching grief and fear that has altered our lives forever.
Government’s loosening of lockdown measures signals a cautiously optimistic bookend to an unimagined time. Those lost are not here to experience it.
The virus has upended everything we knew and has robbed the dead of one of nature’s most enjoyable seasonal shifts.
And yet many of us know that whatever slight hope we may feel could be short-lived.
As the third wave slowly dissipates, leaving in its wake a tsunami of destruction and mourning, news of fourth waves are beginning to emerge.
One cannot help but wonder: Have we seen the worst of Covid-19, or will delta, its most vile mutation to date, be trumped by an even worse one?
Every day, the virus and its effects elicit new answers and more questions.
There is only one thing we know for sure: Until we have reached a stage of widespread immunity, the virus will continue to infect, and kill.
Science tells us at that to prevent a fourth, deadlier wave – and who can even imagine such a thing – we should vaccinate - our only armour, if imperfect, against this deadly disease.
If we line up, despite the at times frustrating lack of vaccines, we can possibly avoid a fourth, even deadlier wave.
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