The Coronavirus And The New Words We Had To Learn
Words come to life in some contexts more than others. Thus, the pen of a writer reveals meanings and meanings. In the current situation of the coronavirus pandemic , there are new words that we had to learn.
The coronavirus and the new words we had to learn: its importance in health settings
The information provided in health spaces retains common features with that provided in other daily settings. It is conveyed through words and represents, in a certain way, for those who receive it, contact with the outside world, that which takes place outside the hospital, the assistance room and the space of ailments on the occasion in which they are present.
Ivonne Bordelois (2009) points out that “ the word is the fundamental axis of our relationship life. Our emotional, political and vital commitments are made of words ”.
However, for the author, the word that is exchanged in the medical interview is surrounded by anxieties and doubts:
A special chapter deserves the way in which words are expressed, associated with metaphors, analogies, with non-words, which, on occasions, roam under the cloak of secrets that expose various complicities.
The access to the information
Basically, the information that people receive in health settings registers varied dimensions. It should be noted that the formal process of providing information is only one of the possible sources that can lead to knowledge, not the only one, because people develop beliefs and knowledge outside the context of health professionals.
What does it mean to ask? Santiago Kovadloff (1991) is questioned while pointing out that “children ask seriously”, alluding to the fact that “they dare to be left out in the open, to endure the enigmas imposed by a reality that, breaking its shell of apparent docility, is planted before them revulsive, irreducible, mysterious and challenging ” .
Thus, the author explores and introduces himself further into the children’s questions and, in relation to them, highlights:
When we run out of answers
Unanswered questions, or questions not asked because silence is preferred, make certainties even more pale and increase doubts about what is hidden or concealed. Thus, beliefs arise, and myths are renewed that strive to grant us some certainty that allows us to cling to them.
There is much that the coronavirus is leaving us and there are many words that we had to learn. The concept of a pandemic appears to us in association with that of an epidemic. Although the latter is better known to us, mentioning a pandemic makes us think of a greater extension.
PCR, experimental drugs, collapse of the health system … These are expressions that intimidate and even frighten us. The media have a fundamental role and responsibility when it comes to communicating. Being up to the task implies providing truthful and reliable information.
New words and coronavirus
The act of informing, thus, becomes a window, an opening or the possibility of a new question that the non-question closes and avoids or keeps secret. It is possible that the empathic commitment of the professional who provides the information is the condition that holds the key so that each of these questions, like locks, can be opened, or remain closed.
