Today Aruba celebrates her Flag and Anthem.
Of course all the festivities have been cancelled. The last few tourists are leaving the island. Tomorrow the RIU for example will be empty. They have about 800 rooms. All contractors are already sent home and the employees will hear tomorrow what will happen to them. Without our guests what remains of our little paradise in the Caribbean? We can use the time to polish it up while we now have a chance. We could fix our water treatment system which is 40 years old, breaking apart and not big enough for the amount of rooms.
The first death happened in our sister island of Curacao today. We have 125 persons in quarantine.
I believe it was one of Asimov's stories which talks about humans as the true viruses in this world. The last 50 years we have grown (exponentially) so fast and smothering the Earth with CO2 and our other waste products... Are we being shown how that must feel? What lessons are we to learn?
After all this mess it will be interesting to see how much we have learnt from all this and have grown up to be more responsible.
Agreed. Bluer skies here on the Gulf Coast due to lack of Spring tourist emissions.
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