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“The Day After Tomorrow”: Spectacular fiction or Science

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Author: Khalid Sultan Almarzooqi  The Day After Tomorrow , a 2004 film by Roland Emmerich. The movie's onset is a strange and menacing weather phenomenon that is inexplicable and anomalous. These are depicted as hailstorms pouring hail the size of small rocks and a series of freak storms in Tokyo, and snow in New Delhi. The reason, an overnight climatic change at the global level, which goes unnoticed because of the anomalous local weather. This change is caused by successive superstorms which freeze entire cities and the whole of the Northern Hemisphere is in an ice age in a night. The film has successfully dramatised the malevolence of this weather as depicted in a popular scene where New York City is frozen by a massive cyclone, the temperature drops so fast that a helicopter drops mid-flight to the ground. But what part of it is plausible and scientifically accurate? Image Source: 20th Century Fox / Fair Use Antagonist: The Weather The weather is the antagonist...
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 The people who suffered the most psychologically due to Covid were the children. "It is thought that compared to other age groups, children will be more negatively affected psychologically because of the difficulty of making sense of all these COVID-19 experiences and lack of self-expression skills." (Karatas and Akat, 2019). Similar to what happens when an adult finds himself or herself in a new situation than what the children had to go through. However, unlike adults, children did not have any experience with the virus. Everything that happened, did right before their eyes. They saw people lose their lives, they saw people mourning their dead, they saw people lose their property and this was simply hard for them. As if that was not enough, they witnessed their parents struggle to make ends meet over the period. In addition, these children had to adjust to a completely new life, different from the one they had before. Other groups that suffered the most psychologically wer...
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