convaration about coronavirus
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Answer:
Charles McCoy, SUNY Plattsburgh
The US response to the coronavirus was slow and problematic, but it also was rooted in a 19th-century way of viewing public health.
August 28, 2020
Returning to the office: how to stay connected and socially distant
Daniel Beunza, City, University of London and Derin Kent, Aalto University
There's an important distinction between planned and unplanned communication.
August 28, 2020
Shinzo Abe, Japan’s longest-serving leader, leaves office a diminished figure with an unfulfilled legacy
Craig Mark, Kyoritsu Women's University
Abe restored mild economic growth to Japan and enhanced the country's position on the global stage, but his handling of the coronavirus pandemic was widely criticised.
August 28, 2020
How coronavirus highlights the everyday challenges of people with learning disabilities
Ruth Northway, University of South Wales
A shared sense of vulnerability could benefit society.
August 28, 2020
Are women leaders really doing better on coronavirus? The data backs it up
Supriya Garikipati, University of Liverpool and Uma S Kambhampati, University of Reading
Fewer cases, fewer deaths and earlier lockdowns were in evidence across nations with female figureheads.
Explanation:
We have all been flummoxed by the way in which the coronavirus called COVID-19 has behaved as if it has agency in the world. We say it “moves,” “adapts,” “evades,” and “tricks us.” We attribute an intelligence to it. We marvel at its ability to manifest itself in so many ways. And everywhere we read COVID-19 is an enemy, an invader, and a killer, one that uses stealth to spread itself. We must defeat it, wipe it out, and eradicate it.
Many places on the internet we are implored to understand COVID-19 in order to stay safe—but only until such time as we vanquish this foe of humankind with a vaccine.
It occurs to very few people that we might be in a conversation with this coronavirus which is transmitting information to us by its actions and responding to our actions with its own reactions.
The rise of antibiotic resistance is another reminder that we are, in fact, in dialogue with the natural world. Everywhere—after centuries of practicing an ideology that claims we humans can control nature and with the right tools always and everywhere bend it to our will—we are being reminded that we are part of nature, that we are, in fact, organisms in an environment.
The modern environmental movement reintroduced the idea that we humans must align ourselves with the natural world or perish. But much of that movement is now focused on technical fixes such as electric cars designed to enable humans to live pretty much as they have been in the recent past.