COVID-19: Apocalypse Now?

The COVID-19 pandemic due to the novel Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has tremendously affected the world; including the richest and the poorest ones, from East to West (1). The centennial pattern of the world pandemics was much similar to this one as quoted by many authors. But after many decades, is there any difference in the COVID-19 pandemic with the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic? Spanish flu has been called as the mother of all pandemics (2, 3). Is the current COVID-19 more aggressive than Spanish flu? Many believe the current COVID-19 is not much less than its precedent one. Just think a moment! After 100 years, are we the same community as we were? The answer is both yes and no! Let's see which aspects of the human being has been changed during the decades and which not? First of all, the COVID-19 pandemic once again urged us to put communicable diseases in the top list of our challenges; for many years, we were trying to convince ourselves that this epoch is the exclusive era of non-communicable diseases. Nowadays, we are again the same as 100 years ago and think about communicable diseases first. Second, all world countries and world associations touched painfully the tangible effects of the human health; one of the "basic needs" that was going to be smashed under the industrialized current world. Third is the effect of COVID-19 on the human way of life. Maybe no phenomenon could change the human life style as much as COVID-19 pandemic. Many metropolitan cities were locked down or became free of crowd while people stayed at home. This is still continuing in so many places. Fourth issue is undoubtedly the similarity in the behavioral pattern of human being; not only in each affected society, but also, between most of the countries worldwide. From shortages in mask and personal protective issues to many metaphysical beliefs that were used as pretext for COVID-19 relief. an‎d maybe the fifth issue is the hopefulness of the people for an extraordinary scientist or superman who could present his or her innovation overnight and defeat the virus.