A note of optimism

Dear friends,

I have been reading the devastating news about the coronavirus pandemic; Apparently more than 2,000,000 people have already been infected (actual figure should be perhaps an order of magnitude higher) and more than 100,000 fellow human beings have passed away out of this illness. No words suffice to describe the feelings of sadness caused by this reality.

Being in this so difficult situation, I somehow felt the need to send a brief note from Athens to fellow human beings all around the Globe, wishing that you and your loved ones are All well with this madness.

It doubtlessly is a very tough moment in our lives, but we All should really be trying to look at the bright side:

It is the first pandemic of this scale in the history of the mankind, where human beings instead of only looking at the skies and pray, they can also look at their fellow men and women, researchers, scientists and technologists, who tirelessly work for finding an effective treatment and a vaccine.

While so many of us will experience personal tragedies, I do think that this pandemic will at the end mark a great victory of the human race.

Let’s stay optimistic then, dear friends. The first wave of the epidemic will soon be over; More effective treatments are created in a rapid pace and, possibly sometime in 2021 a vaccine ready to be widely used will become available. It’s gonna to be a long race, it’s gonna resemble to a marathon, but our global community will definitely cross the finish line successfully.