WORLD AFTER
COVID – 19 (300-350 words essay plz give I will mark you brilliant
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As countries are firefighting the Covid-19 pandemic, one thing is becoming clear, the post-coronavirus world will be different in many ways economically, socially and health wise. No one will come out of this crisis without losing something. Previous threats to individual and social freedoms could not change our way of life but now this important asset of our civilisation is seriously threat-ened. In a post-Covid-19 world, a new international order will be redrawn by the powerful countries taking into account the lessons learnt in dealing with the current pandemic. The role of international institutions will also be critically reviewed.
Developing countries with low GDP growth, high debt and dependence on oil and essential technologies will find it hard to maintain independent foreign policies. IT will play a major role in all aspects of life in education, e-governance, commerce, health and artificial intelligence. Use of tracking devices to monitor citizens would conflict with human rights concerns in favour of security and safety. Tourism will continue but visa regimes will be tightened. The lesson from Covid-19 is poignant. In the march of civilisation, survival of the fittest will not work. We need to take our weak and vulnerable along, even if we have to carry them on our shoulders.
KEYWORDS: Covid-19, international order, democracy, nationalism, multilateralism, developing countries, trade, health, education, IT, tourism
Introduction
The 1918 pandemic, popularly known as the Spanish Flu killed over 50 million people worldwide, in which over 14 million died in British India alone. The impact of this pandemic was deeper and global. It had a major impact on World War I. It altered the boundaries of imperial powers and caused large-scale poverty due to unemployment and inflation in many countries. The pandemic strengthened independence movements in the former colonies and forced countries to make policies for universal healthcare. It also led to advancements in epidemiology, virology and development of vaccines.
Fast forward a century, the Covid-19 pandemic has been running its devastating course in different parts of the world at different timelines. By the start of June 2020, the pandemic had reached 213 countries with over 365,000 deaths and counting, and had peaked only in China, the US and Europe. Populations in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, South and South-East Asia and Australia were slow to catch the infection but did not escape it completely. There were no indications if the pandemic would reach its end like its smaller predecessors SARS (2002) and MERS (2012) or would make a resurgence in the winter of 2021. But one thing is sure that when it is finally eliminated, we are not going back to the world we lived in 2019. The post-coronavirus world will be different in many ways – economically, socially and health wise. No one will come out of this crisis without losing something.
It is ironic that this pandemic has attacked one thing most precious to modern civilisation, which is human liberty. In most parts of the world, our way of life has been characterised by individual and social freedoms for which countries have gone to wars and won them after making costly sacrifices. The Nazi ideology, Fascism and Marxist coups of the past century could not change this way of life. In our own time, terrorism, ISIS and xenophobia could not dampen it. But now this important asset of our civilisation is seriously threatened by a coronavirus and its aftereffects.
There are many assessments going around as to what kind of world we will inherit in the next decade after the cataclysmic change of 2020. These are based on evolving hypotheses, as countries are still busy firefighting the pandemic. Apart from emergency financial measures announced by individual governments and international financial institutions to keep businesses and countries afloat, and help those who are currently out of work, countries haven’t had time to think through their plans for the future. There is, however, plenty of material to sift through and put together a construct of what the future may look like for humanity in the coming months and years when life gets back to a new normal. This essay attempts to identify the parts of this puzzle which, if and when put together by governments, could give an idea of the way we will be in the future. 1
As countries are firefighting the Covid-19 pandemic, one thing is becoming clear, the post-coronavirus world will be different in many ways economically, socially and health wise. No one will come out of this crisis without losing something. Previous threats to individual and social freedoms could not change our way of life but now this important asset of our civilisation is seriously threat-ened. In a post-Covid-19 world, a new international order will be redrawn by the powerful countries taking into account the lessons learnt in dealing with the current pandemic. The role of international institutions will also be critically reviewed.
Developing countries with low GDP growth, high debt and dependence on oil and essential technologies will find it hard to maintain independent foreign policies. IT will play a major role in all aspects of life in education, e-governance, commerce, health and artificial intelligence. Use of tracking devices to monitor citizens would conflict with human rights concerns in favour of security and safety. Tourism will continue but visa regimes will be tightened. The lesson from Covid-19 is poignant. In the march of civilisation, survival of the fittest will not work. We need to take our weak and vulnerable along, even if we have to carry them on our shoulders.
KEYWORDS: Covid-19, international order, democracy, nationalism, multilateralism, developing countries, trade, health, education, IT, tourism
Introduction
The 1918 pandemic, popularly known as the Spanish Flu killed over 50 million people worldwide, in which over 14 million died in British India alone. The impact of this pandemic was deeper and global. It had a major impact on World War I. It altered the boundaries of imperial powers and caused large-scale poverty due to unemployment and inflation in many countries. The pandemic strengthened independence movements in the former colonies and forced countries to make policies for universal healthcare. It also led to advancements in epidemiology, virology and development of vaccines.
Fast forward a century, the Covid-19 pandemic has been running its devastating course in different parts of the world at different timelines. By the start of June 2020, the pandemic had reached 213 countries with over 365,000 deaths and counting, and had peaked only in China, the US and Europe. Populations in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, South and South-East Asia and Australia were slow to catch the infection but did not escape it completely. There were no indications if the pandemic would reach its end like its smaller predecessors SARS (2002) and MERS (2012) or would make a resurgence in the winter of 2021. But one thing is sure that when it is finally eliminated, we are not going back to the world we lived in 2019. The post-coronavirus world will be different in many ways – economically, socially and health wise. No one will come out of this crisis without losing something.
It is ironic that this pandemic has attacked one thing most precious to modern civilisation, which is human liberty. In most parts of the world, our way of life has been characterised by individual and social freedoms for which countries have gone to wars and won them after making costly sacrifices. The Nazi ideology, Fascism and Marxist coups of the past century could not change this way of life. In our own time, terrorism, ISIS and xenophobia could not dampen it. But now this important asset of our civilisation is seriously threatened by a coronavirus and its aftereffects.
There are many assessments going around as to what kind of world we will inherit in the next decade after the cataclysmic change of 2020. These are based on evolving hypotheses, as countries are still busy firefighting the pandemic. Apart from emergency financial measures announced by individual governments and international financial institutions to keep businesses and countries afloat, and help those who are currently out of work, countries haven’t had time to think through their plans for the future. There is, however, plenty of material to sift through and put together a construct of what the future may look like for humanity in the coming months and years when life gets back to a new normal. This essay attempts to identify the parts of this puzzle which, if and when put together by governments, could give an idea of the way we will be in the future.
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