[-empyre-] Fwd: Contagion

[Junting Huang]

Thank you, Melinda, for sharing your story. I am also hopeful of the changes that you talked about in this post. Another pressing issue that surfaced during the pandemic is about the environment. After NASA released their satellite images that show a dramatic decline in air pollution in China (https://www.earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146362/airborne-nitrogen-dioxide-plummets-over-china), numerous studies and news reports have estimated that China's lockdown strategy may have saved tens of thousands of lives in China alone.

This short-term economic halt will unlikely have any long-term consequence, not to mention its tremendous impact on the most vulnerable population. However, I agree that many of us still have the reason to believe that the crisis can be more than a huge inconvenience to our lifestyle, but an opportunity to reflect on excessive consumption, environmental impact, and more.


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Junting Huang
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Cornell University
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