The new facts of life

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Talking about the facts of life may not be the easiest of discussions, but it is a vital one.

In the same way reporting over the last 10 months on the Covid-19 pandemic has not been easy. While we have all gotten used to the basic implications of the global pandemic, it still remains a sensitive issue. The main reasons for this are the right to privacy of those who have become infected, a relentless stream of mis- and mal-information, and an ever-changing understanding of what the virus is, how it infects peo- ple, what the symptoms are and what we can do to prevent infection.

While it is easy to access information on the virus by simply clicking on a website, the most important thing for any publication is to ensure that the information it publishes is credible and from reliable sources. In our endeavours to live up to this, we put in hours of research, checking, and double-checking each fact and source. And although we make every effort to ensure accurate information, we all can be misled. Very few among us did not initially, when we first became aware of the virus, think that it might just be a bad case of flu and that governments were overreacting.

But as the pandemic unfolded, we became increasingly aware of its dangers and the lasting side effects this devasting virus has – physically, emotionally, socially, and economically.

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