written by edit tünde megyeri
translated by borbála fekete

we will have a big party everyone is a fan of the magic number twenty-twenty we are expecting something extraordinary from the new year we hope it will be like this

i met a he just came home from the azores he doesn't know anything about the coronavirus he looked at me in disbelief because i doubted his nearby trip to beijing my new hair color is really good it is a real hit

it's morning and i'm shivering with cold i have a fever i can't lift my arm everything hurts today is my daughter's birthday why is this happening right now

i can't stand up, there's no question of going to the doctor by public transport my husband takes me by car i can't even drive the birthday party was cancelled i didn't wear my new dress from milan

they gave me a mask like in the movies there are three of us in the ward everyone looks at me strangely i'm coughing terribly at home i passed out the ambulance brought me in my daughter is already sick the news is only about the coronavirus these stupid chinese people eat all the crap

i turned forty-eight, i can't believe it's two more years and fifty i asked for my favorite of everything a huge nut cake for dessert we got better although it took a lot of wear and tear during the illness the coronavirus is right around our necks that is all that was missing

two positive cases have reached us here they came from abroad huge chaos and fear i would prefer not to step out of the house i would lock ourselves in for a while

it's women's day we travelled to vienna we took a long walk belvedere is completely deserted the number of infected people is already over a hundred in austria

medical emergency has been declared schools and universities will be closed from monday i will also teach online what will happen and what will happen to my beautician now should I cancel the appointment we are shocked

the first patient in the country died all public holidays are missed we just watch tv the total curfew is coming soon they say that the epidemic will probably peak in the middle of june until then we will perish in this prison

my daughter was fired the wave of unemployment has started it will happen somehow we just have to survive

we have never spent easter apart half of my family is stuck in another country

after two months we managed to climb the mountain together from both sides of the two countries crying and hugging each other around the world there are nearly four million patients the borders are closed

you can travel now the beach is empty italians are terribly sad they are mourning their dead there are twenty million sick people in the world

i woke up with a terrible sore throat this will be it

positive

my eighteen-year-old son is wrapped in a garbage bag so that i can hug him because i am dangerous to him and the divine maradona is no longer alive

covid emergency hell fear spacesuits

fainting emergency hospital 'm going to die we're going to die

there are not enough tests there are not enough doctors there are not enough nurses there are many of us sick people who i love or know conceal when someone dies

i can sit now but only a little bit it’s christmas

they give me sedatives and examine there are many complications i pray i pray

i am forty-nine who is this old sick woman in the mirror

my father came from five hundred kilometers away to see me and i hugged him before the ambulance took me away

i got it i got the vaccine i took place and i'm still alive i was really scared but i'm more afraid of the virus now

i have been a mother for thirty years

everyone is here who survived and who only celebrated the holidays on the screen all the important things in their lives we are happy about this all day now my first photo with gray hair is not so bad

after summer comes autumn and we don't know what will be coming the only good thing about covid is that i lost weight and wear a bikini

positive again i am allowed cry i know how it is to be lonely at christmas with a small thirty-centimeters tree and to think about those who are happy together

the whole family is positive that’s how we're looking forward to the new year we don't hope for anything just we can stand it and once it's over we will still be there

i'm fifty years old i'm alive, we're alive nobody cares about statistics