The covid-19 has infected more than two million people all across the globe and on its way to reach mark 3,000,000; doubling the number from 1 million to 2, in just a week. Thousands of deaths all across the globe, healthcare facilities running out of capacity and world economy shrunk by double digits. The world is being threatened to its highest extent making almost every individual stuck inside their houses, except the medical and emergency workers serving the humanity putting their lives in danger.
Now, when we look back at the history of viral infections like small pox, Spanish flu, we can remember fighting for very long to eradicate these diseases from human society. Diseases like small pox had to be eradicated with the help of vaccines whereas SARS and MERS were eradicated via social distancing and isolation. Keeping in mind that COVID-19 being a close cousin to SARS, social distancing and isolation has to be the main ways to stop the virus at least until we find a vaccine. And for that, the entire humanity has to unite through social distancing.
So, as there is no vaccine available out there and there is no certainty as to when it will be available, we do not see the virus being eradicated from the human society very soon. And keeping people locked in their homes does not seem to be a good suggestion as the world economy is already shrinking and keeping up with essential commodities has already been challenged. So the biggest challenge right now is saving the world from hunger, economic depression and maintaining global trade of essential commodities amidst the corona virus outbreak. Fighting the corona virus might be tough, but fighting all these altogether, doesn’t seem viable at all.
So now, the world governments seem to think and act towards a shared vision or a shared future with the virus until we get our hands on a vaccine, a permanent solution to an epidemic like this. Though a direct put off on lockdown all over the globe is a nonviable solution, but a slow and steady one under study of the human behaviour in places with negligible presence or absence of infections will be a rational way to deal with the situation. And if we are talking about coexistence of COVID-19 and humanity, we need to be united as a global community to beat the rapid spread of the virus.
So, the 1st thing to be taken into consideration would be social experiments. Yes, there has to social experiment in various societies across the globe on their perspective and behavioural patterns amidst the outbreak so as to understand the educational requirements of the population of such societies on the transmission, infection and prevention. Though the literacy and information rates are highest ever all across the globe, the developing and densely populated regions of the world has to be given priority in the 1st place. South East Asian regions, Africa might be the 1st place to keep focus on as the literacy rate, population and poverty are all of great concern in this part of the world. The western countries seems to have a little advantage in this as the poverty and illiteracy rates are very low in the region. Conducting social experiments with preventive measures or high precautions seems to be more viable out there.
And the second element to be taken under consider to unite for a shared future is the infection rate. This one element is closely related to the 1st element that is social experimenting. The loss due to an epidemic can be reduced if we are able to reduce the rate of infection. A low rate of infection means availability of time in the hands of governments and the health care systems to cure the situation not panicking the general public. If we are able to reduce the rate of infection via social distancing and experimenting, the thing we are left with is ‘medical facility available for every infected person’. This will reduce the tangent of infection rate graph giving a distributed time period to treat the patients.
And thirdly and most importantly, Education. We need to educate every individual in this planet via online or offline mode for social distancing, hygiene practice and about the importance of frequent health check-ups when having any basic symptoms of sickness. People themselves showing up to get tested for the infection would be best way to track and stop further infection while we can live our normal life.
And when we say coming forward to unite ourselves, we cannot just end up talking about general public. The world governments, corporate companies and start-ups can get together with medical systems to solve this epidemic problem faster. We can observe world governments and software companies building up mobile software to map out infected regions and there are buzz around Google & Apple joining hands to track out infected individuals. If this becomes possible, social distancing from infected people and regions would be much avoidable and will help keep infection rates very slow. And if we can analyse the data structure and form out any specific pattern of infection with the help of technology, it will definitely help out social study of the virus and its possibility of spreading in different communities.
And yes, world governments have to play a big role in this fight as they need to make medical testing facilities reachable to every individual of their nation and make them feel safe. If international travel needs to be opened up, the governments need to make sure the availability of testing kits in the airports, railway stations and other ports. Medical infrastructure should be a major priority in their economic planning and investments in medical research should also be of major concern.
And one more thing the global community need to unite for is reducing contact with wild animals which of course has the potential to prevent future outbreaks of diseases.
Plant based food is the need of the future.
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