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"I don't mean to blame, but this Pandemic has ruined my plans" - by Yulia Sutjahjono

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(Created by Indra Permana) Let's begin with something that I've been planned in the end of December 2019. I was planning to go to Taiwan by the middle of February to visit one of my Taiwanese close friend as well as visiting my former mentor (from my voluntary mission in Germany) who was doing his internship in Taipei. Actually in early December 2019, I've read news online from VOA Indonesia, it stated that there was new corona virus initially came from Wuhan, China, which is an epicenter of the outbreak. All I was thinking, just: "May be that is only in China, especially in Wuhan, and it stays there, then it's gone very soon". But, heyyy I'm wrong, totally wrong! And maybe everybody also has guessed the same way as I thought. Turned out, the virus deployed very fast and far, up to 15 countries in the first couple weeks in January, included Taiwan. Watching that situation, I started to rethink about my trip, whether I am g