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Resisting Two Pandemics in Somalia

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  2020, A year like no other It has been a while since I wrote a blog, perhaps my blogging passion shrieked or I got myself caught up in piles and piles of work or maybe Covid-19 sabotaged my passion for writing blogs just like it shut down the whole world. But from time to time, my eagerness to tell a story rejuvenate and push me to write something because I feel healed and relieved whenever I write a story.   For its eventfulness, 2020 was a year like no other, a year full of wonders, astonishment and apocalyptic tales. It was a year we came to know an unknown infectious and contagious disease called "coronavirus," a year many of us first heard a city called Wuhan in China and its seafood market which many consider as the origin of this deadly virus.   Then we learned new terminologies such as ‘ lockdown, quarantine and social distancing ’ among many other terms. All these terms mismatched the Somali culture and our lifestyle. For instance, it