Note before

For those who know me, it's pretty straightforward - I'm a human, an engineer, and a millenial trying to be rational and logical about anything that I come across.

And for those who don't know me - I'm a human, an engineer, and a millenial trying to be rational and logical about anything that I come across.

This is to say, I, like most people, extrapolate(1) a lot of information about what's going on because of how clouded the media is and how difficult the scientific community is in trying to reach the public.

And here's my take on the global pandemic of our lifetime. The coronavirus outbreak.

On pandemics

Here are some facts that we can't deny or dismiss.

• This isn't the first global pandemic we're facing.
• This isn't the first of the coronavirus strain we've encountered.
• We know of viable, solid ways in which can keep a pandemic in check.
• We have the technological, medical knowledge to tackle a pandemic situation.
• We do not have enough equipments, or hospitals to handle a pandemic. Or even a large scale peaks of even known diseases in many countries.
• Most of the population still doesn't completely understand the severity of the current situation - medically, economically, geographically, politically, and psychopolitically.
• We're capable(technologically, financially, scientifically) of handling a pandemic.
• We're still figuring out in getting hold of the situation without the worst casualities the history of mankind has ever seen.

But the most important of all,

• We seriously underestimate how ignorant we are.

What I hope to ponder upon, are the above, elaborated.

And in the following pages, I hope I curate enough information for me, and anyone encountering these articles, to understand the pandemic situation from a layman's(2) perspective.