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What Covid Can Teach Us About Programming

Fred Grott
5 min readDec 10, 2021

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Side Note: It’s sad that we had so many deaths due to COVID, but we really cannot help the dead other than mourn their loss. The specific thing is can we save the living?

The COVID pandemic has been with us for 2 years and looks to be here another ten years. What is about the intersection of a crisis, humans, process, and human interaction with processes in COVID that can teach us about programming Front-Ends for humans to consume?

What Is COVID

Severe Acute Repository Syndromes(SARS-COV, SARS) started showing up in the Human population in 2002 due to virus infestations. It gets around our immune response through being able to interact with a spike protein in the immune system.

It was found that it naturally lives in horseshoe bats in the Yunnan province and that the CDC and other groups were funding studies of SARS-COV to then use that knowledge to come up with preventative solutions as even in the 204 timeline a world-wide pandemic was feared.

All the narrative stories told on both sides do not reflect facts but something else. Let’s examine that and hold it affects the personal-human side of software engineering.

Crisis Narratives

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