They are the generation that has grown up hearing about crises. Baby boomers, millennials, post-war children, Generation X, Y, Z... Each one is a child of their time and bears the mark of the events that have happened to them: The Civil War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the economic crisis of 2008...
Each generation wants to divorce itself from the previous one. Currently, with this global pandemic, a new generation has emerged, the so-called "COVID Generation", formed by young people who were ready to make the leap towards a promising future and have had to stop abruptly.
Now their studies, their plans, their working world and their way of relating to each other is an eternal question mark, so there will be nothing left but to apply as a mantra the Spanish saying that says "for any ailment, the best remedy is patience".
However, the best training or a high capacity for adaptation will not be sufficient reasons to remove the haze that is now on the glass through which so many young people are looking for that uncertain future that will be after covid.
Opportunities are going to be generated, yes; but only if we decide to promote a new social outlook that is capable of making science, technology, research, public health, care for people and ecology weigh more in the balance of priorities. At this point is where this new generation must find its place in the post-covid era.
We are living in a moment of public debate, in which much is demanded of governments and where it is not the time to carry out a "witch hunt" that points to one or the other as to why these things happen in the world. This is a time to oxygenate individually and row all in the same direction. This new generation that arises as a result of the coronavirus should not become just another statistic, but an example to imitate in the great capacity to adapt to the circumstances that have arisen with this pandemic.
Now, let's separate the urgent from the dispensable. We will not have a lost generation, nor will the scars left by the worst crises of the past reopen, if we know that whoever has a "why" to live for will be able to endure any "how".
What is happening is a challenge ahead, a "warning" to the younger generations so that they never give up when things get ugly. The coronavirus has left us with the appearance of new heroes who will have the mission of winning the battle against the coronavirus and finding the future that so many generations have fought to have. Welcome COVID generation. Jenifer Galán Councilor PSOE in the Municipality of Teguise.
