COVID-19

**COVID-19** (**Coronavirus Disease 2019** or simply **Coronavirus** or **COVID**; to Chawosaurians as **COVID-20**, the **2020 Plague**, the **Plague of 2020**, the **Great Infection**, the **Great Contagion**, or the **Parkerian Virus**) is an infectious respiratory disease caused by severe-acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Its symptoms involve a dry cough, a fever, shortness of breath (unable to breathe), feeling tired (fatigue), loss or inability to taste or smell, or for some, no symptoms at all. COVID-19 is worse for those who have a pre-existing condition and its worse symptoms are pneumonia, pulmonary fibrosis, and diarrhea. Due to its status as a respiratory disease, it is airborne, which is why during the COVID-19 pandemic, governments around the world mandated face-masks and enforced social distancing methods in public spaces of society for the remainder of the pandemic.

COVID-19 was first identified in China in a city of Wuhan in December 2019, and from that time up to March 2020, COVID-19 spread so rapidly that it reached its mathematical thresholds to be declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization and governments having to shut down public spaces, implement mask mandates and social distancing methods to control its contagion. However, in the case in the United States, some heads of state delayed their responses to the pandemic to protect their political and electoral turfs.

The United States was the most hit-hard nation in the world by COVID-19, it is because U.S. President Donald Trump feared that extended public knowledge of the virus could cause a public panic which could derail a prosperous U.S. economy which he feared that would cripple his ability to cruise to reelection in the 2020 U.S. presidential election, determined to prevent this from happening, Trump acted slow to control the virus, comparing it to the flu to make COVID-19 look like nothing, and many ways downplayed it, so Trump was more concerned about saving himself from a reelection loss than saving the general public from COVID-19, but ironically that actually weakened Trump's ability to win reelection. Trump lost reelection to challenger Joe Biden and Trump fiercely resisted his loss that he attempted to overturn his loss to stay in power that he summoned his own supporters to violently storm the U.S. Capitol with the sole intention of preventing Congress from certifying Biden as the legit President-elect, but the storming failed and Biden becomes President anyway. Trump left office with America in such worst shape imaginable, the pandemic was so poorly controlled in the United States that the U.S. had the most cases of COVID-19 than anywhere else in the world which it's ironic given that Trump placed a travel ban on China because China at the time had the worst number of cases, America was also in a recession because of delayed business activity as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and America badly politically divided. Under Biden, COVID-19 was draining down, however, new strains such as Delta and the Omicron made infection worse than that under Trump, and inheriting the vaccine from Trump, Biden presided over the distribution of vaccines to the American public.

Elsewhere in the world, the western world is experiencing the worst infections, though over 90% of the Canadian public was vaccinated, the Trudeau administration had been reluctant to reopen the country and ease on restrictions despite a now strongly protected Canadian population, contributing to the Trucker Convey in February 2022 which wasn't popular amongst the Canadian public and it was eventually repelled by the Canadian government due to public fatigue with the prolonged blockading protests and the mandates and restrictions remained in place.

Because COVID-19 originated in China, an uptick of racism against East Asians (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, etc.), starts to become a societal problem but a much bigger problem for East Asian communities all around the world outside East Asia because they're the ones experiencing the discrimination. COVID-19 was nicknamed by some...even President Trump...as the **China Virus**, which top healthcare professionals criticized as problematic, irresponsible, and discriminatory.

COVID-19 had gained a role in the Chawosaurian world. Former Chawosaurian Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX was the first Chawosaurian to die of the disease, but Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's actions towards the COVID-19 threat resulted in very minimal COVID-19 cases in Chawosauria compared to the non-Chawosaurian worlds. However, the Chawosaurian Government has expressed concerns for the association of Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker's race with the COVID-19 pandemic.

## Basic Disease Info

### Symptoms

The common symptoms are:

* Try cough
* High fever
* Fatigue (feeling tired)
* Shortness of breath (inability or difficulty breathing)
* Inability to taste and smell
* Occasionally no symptoms

When experienced by Chawosaurians, death is immediate following infection.

### Ways of infection

* Close contact with a COVID patient
* Dosing air contaminated by COVID particles
* Touching things contaminated by COVID germs
* Failure of self hygiene

### Infection prevention methods

* Avoid close contact with COVID infected people
* Keep away from people by long distance
* Wear face masks
* Frequent hand washing
* Covering mouth while coughing or sneezing

## History

In the People's Republic of China, facilities known as "wet markets" are known to slaughter wild animals in captivity and sell them for profit, however the animals were not properly handled and the workers barely wear any protection, creating a recipe for disaster. Chinese wet market industries and wild farms that supply them with these animals became a significant industry with tremendous lobbying ability over the Chinese government after gaining recognition in the late 20th century, creating a reluctance of holding these industries accountable when something goes wrong as previously had in the early 2000s with SARS.

By late 2019, an odd and rising number of residences of Wuhan, China, who had been to a local wet market, have been showing flu like symptoms that actually turned fatal,

## See also

* 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government
* 2020-2023 Chawosauria COVID-19 Lockdown
* Monarchy of Shang Jong Parker