Distancing Away

Chapter One: Right Before My Eyes

"Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying."

-Quote by Roy T. Bennett

Aiden POV (Man's Point of View)

While the evening light shimmered through awning windows above, a population of people were wandering around the establishment, losing track of the hours they'd spent for the day.

Unlike everyday life, many were so dejected of the numerous cases, that even little happiness wouldn't even afford to withstand this oppressive occurrence. Countless people were distancing with each other or bothered to even greet the untrusted. Bunch of police officers patrolled about, eyeing to every citizens who might be disobeying the authority's regulation. Alcohols were everywhere, constantly used by various individuals; and windows were permanently opened, making way for the natural air to go inwards.

I know that its kind of strange given how much more spirited the place was supposed to be (I mean this is the hospital so it isnt supposed to be like that but... uhh... let's say, it is not that worse?) but I can't help it. The situation been like this for months already since the day the WHO organization declared COVID19 a pandemic.

It started after an infectious disease caused a stampede all over the citizens; once again, unleashed from the horrors that went back 1918.

Back then, the outbreak of the Spanish swine fever was awfully formidable. No one would even want to remember the sufferings and pain poured out amidst those terrible years. Due to that, alot of people generations after didn't even expect its capability of arising although history were certain that one of its kind would eventually reborn.

To think that alot actually call the pandemic false on its earliest days makes me piss my pants. Guess that's what happens when they just blatantly ignore studies about the said virus because certainly they proposed between the lines that this century is more advance and modernized than what it was on the past. Although, its obviously clear that nothing can actually stop it from emerging out of the surface.

Yes, I admit the chances are high for it to be stopped with the generation's innovative and advanced findings but it doesn't excuse the fact that we had to face the same effect as the past. Remember that, it takes a great deal for us to finally terminate it. That includes a big amount of research. (Here am I again with my long ass essay and I haven't got to the story yet. Nevermind me. Just Aiden, that blabberhead guy you met in highschool.)

So over centuries, there was SARS back in 2004, bird flu, and many more that were descendants of the said virus. Then now, there's this COVID-19 epidemic scampering throughout Wuhan, China... and yeh. Guess we had to face our consequences before we start to act.

On my way to the ER, every step on the tiles feels like freezing as I paved through busy hallways of the neighboring hospital. Needlessly, my arms and legs at the same time were shivering intolerably, unsettled by the situation running around; while, the penetrating iodoform scent ran throughout my lungs, appending anxiousness all over my head. Since my hands were also on a tremor, I was worried that maybe my Canon digital camera would helplessly fall out.

I wore a full sleeved leather jacket outside my lambswool turtle neck sweater with a grayish hoodie covering my quiff leather black hair. I also wore harbor grey trousers for my legs. I did what matters necessarily to protect myself from airborne particles by keeping my skin hidden on the layers of my garments.

A pair of disposable gloves slipped through my fingers, my eyes concealed with safety goggles, and chelsea boots over my feet. I even ensured that I'll not be able to breath as easily since I'd carefully sealed my nose and mouth with a surgical mask beneath my n95 respirator.