Yoga and Corona
Yordanka Naydenova • March 14, 2020
My second blog post

I was so unhappy that had to cancel the yoga classes because of the coronavirus. But I assume this decision is for the best.
I've just started teaching last month and was feeling on fire. I didn't want to give up. Anyway, classes became smaller and it was just a matter of time till I cancel them. I thought that my yoga is not so bad for spreading the corona, because we are such a small group and yoga is one of the best tools for boosting immunity.
That was it with optimism and pink glasses. More or less I didn't want to cancel because I didn't know what to do for two (or more) weeks. I am currently unemployed and was using the opportunity to focus on my hobby - yoga. I was also scared that if I cancel, I will lose the very few customers that started becoming regulars.
If it was on me, I would maybe continue, but since the government took serious measures and almost everything got closed, so followed those rules as well the Cultural Space where I am having the classes. I assume, it's for the best and I am happy that they did so, otherwise, the stubborn Yordanka would continue spreading infections.
It's so creepy the whole situation outside, everybody's buying food like there is a war. Almost empty streets, the very few people are running away from other human beings. There is a lot of fear in the air and especially- the fear of the unknown and what is going to happen.
We don't have another choice than to be minimalistic - to buy less, to crave less, to stay at home, to talk less, to cut unnecessary social contacts, to focus on the important things. It's a very bad time, knowing that so many people might die and we are afraid to not lose our beloved ones. The collapse of economics, globalization and social life. Many people will lose their jobs and some companies might get bankrupt. Trips get canceled, plans get screwed. I think many people are not so happy with this quarantine and accept it as a punishment, comparing it with imprisonment because don't want to stay home. You know, those rebellions, but they get less and less every day. Many people who were still "cool" last week and were convincing me to not give a fuck, now are paranoid and I should calm them down.
Within all this nightmare we don't have a big choice but to accept that we should stay at home as much as possible and use this time to rethink and focus on what really matters, reconnecting with our inner self and reflect. For many people this is a longing holiday - for somebody who is at the edge of burnout, this is a necessity and welcomed break.
So, if the circumstances allow, we should take the maximum out of it and really focus on minimalism - this will create new horizons and perspectives.
When people are feeling insecure, they are buying like crazy. The supermarkets look like battlefields. Empty shelves, people hurrying up to take it first and to get as much as possible. I saw pictures on the Internet with ladies fighting for toilet paper. A whole cashier till wrapped with nylon foil in the shape of a tunnel. A guy covered with nylon bags from the bottom to the top, so only the eyes are visible. Some actions look a bit exaggerated and make us laugh but some fun is good for the immune system. Hypochondriacs get crazy and the people with vulnerable health. It's not a joke but I don't know if there is something that you could do to prevent it 100% and we might be meanwhile all contagious.
There is nothing we could do than waiting for the storm to pass, hoping for the best and of course wash our hands thoroughly.
On the internet, there are so many speculations. You don't know what to believe in. One thing for sure - don't believe anything 100%. Everybody reads a lot of news, but everybody has a head on his shoulders. Getting quality information nowadays is not so easy as it might look like in google. It feels like finding a pearl in an ocean of trash. I try to avoid discussions with people who only read one article and now trying to convince me in the truth of this source. My "favorite" is: I am not afraid because this is only dangerous for old people or people with chronic diseases. Yes, young, healthy people might be immortal for the moment but they still spread the virus to the next one.
In two weeks so many more people will show symptoms. I don't want to imagine what is it going to be like. Survivors of the COVID-19 share on the Internet that it took 10-16 days to get over it. So, after two weeks incubation period it would take approx two more weeks till the contagious get healthy (or die, sorry to say, but it's also a highly possible result.) Simple arithmetics - in one month according to my calculations we would be still under quarantine but I hope we will reduce the spread meanwhile.
I also hope they will release the vaccine meanwhile; the latest till the end of April.
There are outnumber speculations and theories and different theories about the origin of the Corona. God punishes us; aliens want to kill the weak amongst us while forcing us staying at home so we have nothing else to do than babies and they could make experiments with us; Donald Trump wants to punish China; Bill Gates is behind the virus, he and his wife donated few millions (of their pocket money) to support discovering of antivirus but this is all set up and in fact, they will just take the money for the vaccine; in Uhan recently were installed 10 000 5G antennas so this is why people there got sick; the virus was released out by mistake from the virology center in Uhan; the pharmacy; it's just from the nature like the pest and many other deceases that originated in the human history, "natural selection"; Illuminati; new world order.
I don't know about you and I don't want to convince anyone but I will share my subjective opinion. I believe in the theory that this is really artificially created biowarfare. A perfect weapon, spreading fear all around the globe, killing the old and weak and only proving us that we are just pawns in the game and some powerful people decide for and instead of us. I don't know about the names, if it's Donald Trump, Bill Gates, Illuminati, the whole pharmaceutical industry but I somehow believe that whoever is behind releasing it, has also the vaccine prepared. Every winter we have new flues and very soon we get a vaccine against them. Although naturally originate new threats for o ü weakened bodies, due to the fact we get further and further from nature, still believe that the worst evil on that planet is us, the people and we hurt each other.
Moral of the story, life is hard, love each other (but from a distance), wash your hands, hope for the best and don't spread the virus.
Stay healthy!