After coronavirus life is
not the same and perhaps never will be.
Not everybody take what is happening seriously but real triathletes are
a different breed; they are more serious in recovery and training and today’s
world is not the same. We come back to
what Malcolm Gladwell said in 2018. The
need to think analogically instead of digitally. He said, doctors thought about a puzzle to
solve when seeing patients in the past; today, with information from many
fronts, he/she needs to see the patient as a mystery. After failures of the governments,
institutions and the WHO, we need to find our way out of this pandemia. A criminal act was committed when they denied the coronavirus
transmission through aerosol; advertising very primitively not needing to wear
a mask. Our only rational choice is to face the pandemia without denying the threat
of the virus and understanding that we are alone in a small team, if we have it. Since April we wrote about it:
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We started learning since the
beginning of the pandemic about the virus, to face the situation. We
have learned the following:
1) The virus is
transmitted via aerosol in addition to saliva
drops. Why? We have the story about the chorus rehearsing
and apparently keeping the distance between two people. They said:
“No one sneezed or coughed.” One-day rehearsal, 60 people
practicing, 45 sick, two deaths.
This is more
anecdotal, if you wish, but we have other sources of information.
We have the studies mentioned in the
New England Journal of Medicine:
Malcolm does not know that what
he is seeing what said long time ago: “Plato believed the world was to be discovered and Aristotle supposed that we were creating the world.” How we approach the
world has different consequences and the coronavirus confront us with our obsolete
thinking.
Following this way of
thinking we can approach triathlon taking what Malcolm rediscover. The story of David vs Goliath. This is something we speak with our
athletes. If we are able to see the
difference between people, “who is who,” we do not have problems with
life. Revisiting History the way Malcolm
is doing it is needed right now for humanity.
The coronavirus as well as
Goliath is something to be study as a mystery; our rivals are similar. We have to find out how much is advertisement
and how much is reality; Goliath was created to scare people not to fight. It was like seeing Anthony Joshua fighting
Andy Ruiz in the first fight. That is
how we created the first triathlon junior world champion (2018).
