Covid-19: Co-operate with Each Other
Thida Sutthangkhakun: January 24,
2020. Chinese New Year’s Day, I heard the bad news regarding Corona virus, then
known to the rest of the world as ''Wuhan Virus''. It made me very sad.
However, many of my Chinese friends continued to send me Chinese New Year’s
wishes. I often wondered how these Chinese friends had to absorb days of bad
news and exhibit such positive strength and energy. No one outside China could
have imagined the level of difficulty and pain these brave Chinese friends had
to endure. As a foreigner from Thailand, I was unable to empathize with their
plight.
The world’s attention and sympathy at that time were primarily
focused on the Chinese people and China. We would hear bad news every day. For
example, there were daily broadcasts of the number of infected cases each day,
the number of deaths, and how many doctors had died, etc. With the daily
barrage of bad news, we rarely heard reports of Chinese people going against
the lockdown orders and decrees set forth by the legal authority. Besides,
there were no protests witnessed in the streets. All lockdown instructions were
politely carried out by all its citizens.
In the midst of such a continued string of bad news, we were
pleasantly surprised to observe many positive acts of kindness shown by various
groups of peoples from around the world. This truly represented the best
mankind had to offer, just like the English saying that goes:
“A friend in need is a friend indeed.''
To show solidarity with the Chinese people in China, some overseas Chinese even
chartered an entire airplane to ship tons of masks to China. This was such a
touching display of kindness and solidarity! Solidarity in Chinese called ‘
ↀ (Tuánjié) 团结
ↀ (Tuán) 团 means group
ↀ (jié) 结means knot
means is bounded together into one group, we are friend, we are in the same
boat and help each other forever.
After two months, china was able to cope up with this epidemic successfully. with this epidemic. It
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