By Arianna Belluardo According to the Guardian: “cases of anxiety and depression around the world increased dramatically in 2020, researchers have found, with an estimated 76m extra cases of anxiety and 53m extra cases of major depressive disorder than would have been expected had Covid not struck.” The quote aboveContinue Reading
By Margaux Marzuoli Politicians’ responses to the Covid-19 pandemic have been a source of contention around the world and have given people new reasons to criticize those in power. The role of the Covid-19 pandemic in current social unrest is particularly relevant in the context of Guadeloupe and Martinique. Indeed,Continue Reading
By Ricarda Blümcke On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization officially declared Covid-19 a pandemic. At that point, our planet had already warmed by 1.2C since pre-industrial times. What followed this were unprecedented restrictions, encompassing travel constraints, working and studying from home, and business closures worldwide – dramatically reducingContinue Reading
By Luma Andrade Trigger warning: This article contains discussions of domestic violence, which some may find distressing. Therefore, please respect your boundaries and do not proceed with this article if it might negatively affect you. Some people are lucky enough to be able to call their houses their homes, butContinue Reading
By Mara Ciu If you were still in school when the COVID-19 pandemic first turned everyone’s lives around, then you might be very familiar with the concept of “online teaching and learning”. But something extremely obvious underlies that- if you are reading this on a PC/laptop/mobile phone that you haveContinue Reading
By Zuzanna Mietlińska A modified version of the Star of David has allegedly been circulating in anti-COVID restrictions’ protests throughout Germany and the city of London. The yellow star with the now-incorporated word “ungeimpft” (german for “unvaccinated”) has started a heated debate on the Internet. Do people have a rightContinue Reading
By Arianna Pearlstein Throughout the coronavirus pandemic, people across the world have consistently heard similar messages from governments, international organizations, and celebrities alike: We are all in this together, and to return to “normal” everyone must do their part by following social distancing guidelines to limit the spread of theContinue Reading
By Joanna Sowińska Everyone certainly remembers the countdown to 2020. However, no one probably expected the question: ‘Do you have your face mask with you?’ would become so common and repetitive in this new upcoming year. Nor that 2020 would result in an economic disaster, loss of millions of jobs,Continue Reading
By Zhayra Escalona In my vocabulary, there is a word that is extremely important. It is a word that probably has not even been heard, let alone seen, by most people in the Western world. Now imagine my surprise when I saw it being thrown about on social media unlikeContinue Reading
By Zuzanna Mietlińska While mainstream media covers such topics as virus spreading, death tolls and prevention methods of COVID-19 around the world, there are still sources of information that give us the spark of joy. These are, to say the least, uninformative and non-opinion-forming sites on the Internet that capContinue Reading