Interview - Miriam Calleja Shaw

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You have recently published a book called COVID-19and the Virus that Shook the World . It provides a sobering look at virus infections and pandemics, with particular emphasis on the COVID-19 strain. Presently, the cases have diminished in Europe but the spread has moved elsewhere. However, how safe is ‘safe’ at the moment? With the way things are evolving with the ’new’ coronavirus, it’s very difficult to answer this question. The WHO just last weekend warned that the worst may be yet to come. We are certainly witnessing an atrocious amount of deaths and illness in the US. We don’t yet know with certainty which factors are affecting the progression of the pandemic. Indeed we don’t even know about all the symptoms that appear with COVID-19 infection. The relative ‘safety’ is different for everyone, depending on the state of their immunity and certain other factors. For a person with average health who isn’t too old, the danger of getting severely ill may be low – but we need to
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Pubblikaturi Maltin

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Mhux xi sigriet kbir dan: l-industrija tal-ktieb ma trendix. Min irid jagħmel il-flus żgur li mhux se jinvesti fil-kotba: la bħala qarrej, la bħala awtur, la bħala bejjiegħ, la bħala librar u wisq anqas bħala pubblikatur. U ma ninsewx l-edituri, il-qarrejja tal-provi, id-disinjaturi, l-illustraturi. Ħadd minnhom ma jbid il-bajd tad-deheb. L-istejjer il-kbar li nisimgħu bihom - tal-J K Rowlings u s-Stephen Kings - huma biss fula f'qargħa, anki lil hinn minn xtutna. Meta kien Malta, Simon Mawer kien qal li biex tagħmel il-flus bil-kitba trid issib proxxmu li jinvesti l-miljuni fil-prodott tiegħek u jagħmlu film. Hemmhekk qegħdin il-flus. 'Anything less than that, just hold on to your day job.' Aħseb u ara fis-sitwazzjoni li ninsabu fiha issa, f'pajjiż daqshekk ċkejken. Il-kotba, l-għarfien u l-istejjer huma lussu li bħala ċiviltà ma naffordjawx li noqogħdu mingħajrhom. Ippruvajna kemm-il darba imma kien kollu ta' xejn. Aħna batejna. Biss biss aħsbu f'xeni fejn il-kotba jintremew, jinħarqu, jittieħdu minn fuq l-ixkafef, jiġu ċċensurati. Huma xeni tal-biża', u bir-raġun, għax meta teħles minnhom, tkun qed tarmi xi ħaġa essenzjali li lilna tagħmilna bnedmin.

 Għalhekk ejja nissapportjaw lill-pubblikaturi Maltin. Hawn taħt qed inpoġġi ħoloq għas-siti tagħhom: ħafna minnhom qed joffru skontijiet fuq il-kotba. Dan mhux appell biex nagħtu l-flus lill-pubblikaturi, imma appell biex ninvestu fil-ħiliet tagħhom, li tant huma prezzjużi għalina lkoll. 

 (Ippruvajt ninkludi lil kulħadd. Jekk qabiżli xi ħadd, ibagħtlui messaġġ u nirranġa.)
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