The 2021 J.U.C. MEDIA, RESEARCH & WRITING AWARDS | Category: RESEARCH | Theme: Is COVID-19 a natural virus? Or, is it produced at a laboratory? Is there any correlation between Covid-19 and G5 Technology? IF it is a human-produced product, then what is your reliable evidence on that? What are your science-based predictions on life with-and-after Covid-19? What is your opinion on Vaccine? Once it is available, would you prefer medicine versus vaccine or vice-versa? WHY? (1044 words)
Submission No# 6 | Submitted by: Zeynep Bayraktar (Student, High School, 15 years old.) Parental Consent received.
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THE WORLD OF THE CORONAVIRUS

Yersinia pestis – Black Plague (1350)
Variola – Smallpox (1870)
Influenza – Spanish Flu (1920)
SARS-CoV-2 – Covid-19 (2019)

Could a microorganism too small to be seen with the naked eye, bring down one of the most developed living beings on Earth? The answer is yes, actually, hundreds of times. Throughout the history of civilizations, pandemics have swept the whole world like a dark wind, destroyed the majority of the world population, after destroying cities and civilizations either slowly disappeared or humanity won this war and managed to eradicate those diseases. The diseases have been listed above are the pandemics with the highest mortality rate in world history. The last of these pandemics is born in Wuhan, China in 2019 and spread rapidly all over the world. SARS-CoV-2, a coronavirus that comes from the same family with the SARS and MERS viruses, and the disease it causes, Covid-19, is on its way to becoming one of the pandemics that have its name written in world history with the number of deaths has exceeded 3 million in 1.5 years. Of course, while the virus continues to spread through the countries, humanity is looking for ways to fight the disease.

There are 2 ways to prevent a pandemic: either let it flow and let a part of the population die out and others catch the disease and become immune, or clinical and research studies are initiated by inspecting the root of the disease. Since the Covid-19 disease has been accepted as a pandemic, scientists have been working on an effective treatment method. While the genetic structure of the virus was being analyzed to start treatment studies, different arguments about the virus began to rise. At first, scientists had different opinions on this issue. While some claim that the disease is naturally passed from a badly cooked bat to a human, others claim that it is a potential biological weapon leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology. Then, with the research made on the genetic background of the virus, now the huge majority of scientists argue that the virus occurred naturally, and it passed from bats to humans.

In an article investigating the origins of SARS-Cov-2 published in one of the famous medical journals, “Nature Medicine” in March 2020, it was shown that this virus was not manipulated and genetically similar to other natural coronaviruses. Although it is not known exactly which animal it is passed through, it is considered certain that SARS-Cov-2 passed from animals to humans. On the other hand, while the crowded cities of China create a feasible environment for such infectious diseases, it is known that the exotic animals consumed in the country have the potential for a source of these dangerous viruses. At the same time, as we know from the pandemics written above, such outbreaks occur periodically in the world and Covid-19 is likely to be one of them. The arguments that defend the opposite idea, are almost entirely based on conspiracy theories rather than evidence-based scientific data. Some argue that this virus is created to control the overpopulation issue in China, while others argue that during biological weapon trials it leaked out of the laboratory and infected locals. As the conspiracies in which the virus was produced in the lab continued, a new claim began to spread among people. With the developments in the field of communication, there are increasing rumours that the transition from 4.5G to 5G technology accelerates the spread of the virus and the radiation emitted from these base stations also contributed to making people get severely sick.

Even though scientists cannot make a common decision on the origin of the virus, have the same opinion on 5G based theories: “Nonsense.” For other virus types that break out from time to time, 3G, 4G, and 4.5G have no spreading effect, and there is no relationship between the spread of SARS-Cov-2 and the use of 5G technology. The appearance of people with such extreme ideas can actually be accepted as one of the reflections of this disease in society as in all regulations.

Many people become unemployed and countries are affected economically as a result of the infectious and deadly disease pandemics, social changes are also observed in this Covid-19 pandemic. The population age is getting younger with the losses of severely affected older age groups. At the socio-economic level, many local shops in interaction with people are in danger of closing down after strict quarantine slowdown of the world in order to fight the spread of the virus. Although the importance of individual hygiene, the need for clinical research studies, and awareness of infectious diseases increase in the pandemic situation, it will be undeniable that some of the parts of the population begin to show disease paranoia-type behaviours and obsessive cleaning.

Yersinia pestis bacteria, also known as the black plague, could have been taken under control with the discovery of antibiotics, for smallpox it was preventive vaccines, and for Spanish flu, it was antiviral drugs and today, all those diseases have lost their destructiveness. Of course, with the ongoing studies, vaccine and drug development for Covid-19 are also possible in the near future. Although there is a hesitation in the society as to whether we should be vaccinated or use drugs instead, they do not provide the same type of protection, therefore they are not options for us to decide. While ‘vaccine’ is a ‘preventive’ treatment developed for the body to give an immune response against certain microbes before picking up the disease, drugs are an immune system aid to reduce the reproduction of the microbes and its damage to the body after the body receives the microbe. In other words, there is no “vaccine or medicine”, there is “a vaccine and medicine when necessary”.

To sum up that everything that has been happening around the world, we can say that Covid-19 is a serious pandemic that is still spreading with an unstoppable force. While the disease keeps damaging society, some psychically and some mentally, the scientists and clinicians do not surrender and keep working on a cure despite all the risks and lack of knowledge. As a part of society, our duty is to keep our distance, use masks correctly and pay attention to personal hygiene. Soon, we will have the days where we can see each other’s smiles in person.

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The 2021 J.U.C. MEDIA, RESEARCH & WRITING AWARDS
Category: RESEARCH | Theme: Is COVID-19 a natural virus? Or, is it produced at a laboratory?
Is there any correlation between Covid-19 and G5 Technology?
IF it is a human-produced product, then what is your reliable evidence on that?
What are your science-based predictions on life with-and-after Covid-19?
What is your opinion on Vaccine? Once it is available, would you prefer medicine versus vaccine or vice-versa? WHY? (1044 words)
Submission# 6 | Submitted by: Z.B. (Student, High School, 15 years old.) Parental Consent received.