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     So...this is awkward...I don't feel like I have the power to jinx the fate of the planet, but really who knows?      Just half a year ago I made my little passion presentation , and lo and behold, two months after that, the Covid-19 pandemic was declared. My first reaction was admittedly, "I told you so." My secondary reaction was, "what now?"       I am still stuck on the latter reaction. I am following all the guidelines, and new laws in place. I am relentlessly on the emotional roller coaster of optimism, pessimism, frustration, hope, defeat, angst, jitteriness, denial, and a bunch of other things that just cause inner chaos. Mainly though, I am trying to navigate the overbearing ocean of news that is constantly bombarding us.      At the beginning of the pandemic, I was right there on the frontlines of the media, clicking on every headline, reading every Tweet, watching every press conference and dissecting t...

     In November 2019 I had to hold a short presentation on a topic of my choice. I chose pandemics, to be an edgy medical student, someone who isn't focused on organ donation, and because it obviously genuinely interests me. A little disclaimer: the presentation was spoken, without any other presenting tools, and held for laypeople who had no idea about the topic. I also had a time limit of 7 minutes, so a lot of my ideas are gravely simplified - reading it back now, I am slightly unnerved, but I'll expand in another post, with my updated views. Also I promise I have sources for everything.      The translated text is below, in English. Underneath that, for those who are interested, there's the German original presentation. English translation:      Let's talk about the Apocalypse. Not a dramatic, world-shattering apocalypse, a gentler type.      Some background on me, I am fascinated by global outbreaks of disease: that's eve...