Why COVID-19 feels like a forced siege? A Greek perspective

Headline Diplomat eJournal - Issue 1, Series 2
The perilous lenses of COVID-19: The sociopolitical impact
Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ekwomadu, Content Writer, Headline Diplomat, LUDCI.eu
Everything looked calm, and many people around the World were still battling their financial problems from the decade-long debt crisis. Then came March 2020 when the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic broke out.

Due to the lockdown occasioned by the outbreak of the virus, the Greek economy has been predicted to shrink by up to 10.5% by the Foundation of Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) — the country’s foremost think tank. Not minding that the coronavirus has killed substantially fewer people than seasonal flu, the Greek economy had to suffer a lockdown.

The bombshell: various rumors discuss that medical examiners have been encouraged to deliberately and erroneously report coronavirus as the cause of every death to inflate the overall number of deaths from the virus. Whether this is true or false, the story will tell!

For now, all that we know is that even the U.S. president, Donald Trump, and the New York State governor, Andrew M. Cuomo, had initially questioned the death toll from coronaviru...