How is Covid-19 impacting
non-democratic
governance?
What does the current crisis
tell us about non-democratic
strengths and
weaknesses
under the state of emergency?
Answers
Answer:
Explanation:
Covid-19 is a disease which had such a devastating
effect that within few months whole world was in
lockdown. It came with numerous negative effect but
actually it is the mirror which shows us the harsh reality
of present time i.e. how we are exploiting the nature; or
how we are using science and technology in making
destructive things in name of saving ourselves, our
freedom and our country. This global pandemic taught us
how fragile is our health infrastructure for such epidemic.
Bills and Malinda Gates Foundation, Johns Hopkins Centre
for Health Security and World Economic Forum
conducted a survey on how government was prepared for
such epidemic and the result was every country was
woefully prepared for such situation. All nations spend
their money on its defense but none had spent on their
health infrastructure.
This pandemic taught us that by sacrificing our little
freedom we can actually save our nature; nowadays by
staying inside we might be getting bored but in real we
are saving our nation from losing its human resource. This
also taught, how to be content when we are alone and
with basic necessities for life; and also it taught us about
the importance of friends and family in life for whom we
were not having time earlier; and it taught about general
hygiene that we forget in this fast pace of life.
Because of this pandemic there must be decrease of job
opportunities but at the same there are many
opportunities building up like work related to online
platform. After this most people should start work from
home system this would help us in many ways and online
classes should set up so that children irrespective of their
economic status they can get education. For all this
internet is must and therefore internet should become our
basic right.
One of the best thing happened in this period is filling of
hole in the Ozone layer and cleaning of river Ganga for
this many scientists have worked hard but there was no
favorable outcome. It showed that if we give nature
sufficient time to retreat without any interference then
nature would heal itself. For now on we must not pollute
nature. One way is working from home mentioned earlier
that it can help in controlling pollution.
Covid-19 has affected many science, space and
technology institutions and government agencies
worldwide leading to reduce in productivity but in coming
months these institution have main role in getting over
the loses happened in this period.
The main role of science and technology at present is to
find vaccine of this deadly disease and each and every
research group is trying their best to find vaccine as soon
as possible. If vaccine is not being ready then it is not
fault of scientists because after coming of this virus and
within few days and with negligible number of cases they
were able to tell its causes and its preventions.
Technology helped in easily detection of infection in
humans and in curing them example plasma therapy.
But vaccine is not the complete solution for such problem
in future, we need some technologies that can provide
social distancing because there are only few who can
work from home but many people cannot work from
home such as homeworkers, construction worker etc.
Recently UN DESA (United Nations Department of Economic
and Social Affairs) said that science and technology at
present has a lot of room for improvement for resolving
challenges at global level such as this and there should a
collaborative relations between the policy makers and
scientists and fruits should be shared universally; and
government must act with urgency on global scientific
assessment.
The reality is harsh but it is truth. This pandemic came with
negativity but it taught many things that was being
forgotten in the last few years. This is a lesson for every
person and the future generations of mankind. It also
showed the real role of science and technology that is to
help mankind to flourish not to destruct whole world.
Answer:
Explanation:
COVID-19 has governments at all levels operating in a context of radical uncertainty, and faced with difficult trade-offs given the health, economic and social challenges it raises. The regional and local impact of the COVID-19 crisis is highly heterogeneous, with a strong territorial dimension and significant implications for crisis management and policy responses. This paper takes an in-depth look at the health/social, economic, and fiscal impact related to the COVID-19 crisis. It provides good practice examples from all OECD countries and beyond, to help mitigate the territorial effects of the crisis, and offers ten takeaways on managing COVID-19’s territorial impact, its implications for multi-level governance, subnational finance and public investment, as well as points for policy-makers to consider as they build more resilient regions.