'When the nCoV epidemic obscures the community spirit' 12
Last week, another woman from Tam Dao (Vinh Phuc), 30 km from Son Loi, offered incense and some money to Bao Ha temple (Lao Cai).
The whole world is going through stressful days in the fight against the Covid-19 epidemic.
On the one hand, that zeal has helped Vietnam stand firm against the epidemic, controlling the speed and scope of the virus’s spread in society up to the present time.
Over the past few days, I have seen small businesses in Vinh Phuc complaining about the slowdown due to customers’ fear of spreading the epidemic and simultaneously canceling orders.
Even before her daughter’s wedding, Ms. Pham Thi Ha had to go to the People’s Committee of Ba Hien commune (Binh Xuyen) to ask for a `certificate that the locality does not have a corona epidemic` even though the commune is not in the `quarantine` area and has not
I wonder if the Vinh Phuc people labeled `people in epidemic areas` in the stories above deserve to be treated like that?
Even more ridiculous, not long ago, when I witnessed the young girl Nguyen Thi Du, 23 years old, one of three pneumonia patients at the Central Hospital of Tropical Diseases (the first person in Vinh Phuc to be confirmed positive for nCoV).
No one wants to get sick and spread the disease to others, especially their relatives.
Putting myself in the situation of a 23-year-old girl who just escaped the `death scythe`, I wonder what I would feel when I read such critical words directed at myself?
`I am from Vinh Phuc. We are humans. We are not viruses. Don’t discriminate against us.`
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