COVID-19 virus hit us hard. Warnings from Nicolas Taleb that our interconnectedness could cause wide pandemic were true. Schools are closed and most of us are working from home, spending time in isolation and trying not to spread the virus. At the moment when I am writing this, all the borders in my home country are closed, all bars and malls are closed and you can not go out after 5 PM. Apart from that, this pandemic has a huge impact on the economy. By many parameters, we were on the verge of a big economic crisis without coronavirus, but now it seems certain. We can only hope that this will not have the same catastrophic event as the crisis of 2008. The optimistic predictions say that the ICT industry will recover by the Q4 of 2020, the pessimistic ones say that ICT will be back on track in Q2 of 2021. It all sounds like a diary entry from some post-apocalyptic world.

However, there is some good news too. More than 70% of patients, of about 80,000 people sick from COVID-19 in China, have recovered and been discharged from hospitals. China also released a statement that vaccines are in clinical trials. Apart from this, scientists have figured out how the coronavirus breaks into human cells, which will help significantly in developing treatments. One of the two coronavirus clusters in Italy – Codogno, has reported significantly fewer infections per day due to high levels of self-quarantine. So, there is a light at the end of this tunnel.