Question

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has affected not only the healthcare systems all around the world but it has also given rise to severe economic crises all over the world. The main argument that is heard about lockdowns is that there should be a balance between the health situation of people and the related economic impact of lockdowns as well. Analyze this statement in light of critical thinking concepts that you have learnt in class. Your response should not be more than 200 words

Answer 1

Though Imposing Lockdown will slown down the pandameic spread and providing opportunity to break the spread chain, it's also responsibility of the goverment to bring back the impacted and contracted economy to the recovery track to avoid people suffer from Poverty and loss. Covid 19 has clearly exposed goverment's policy flaw and prepardness in health care system. It has raised concerns on the healthcare financing and Delivery of medical supplies.

Right from highly developed countries to developing countries, everyone struggled and expressed its inability to contain this Pandemic situation, eventough we have achieved so much in science and Research.

This is right time for goverment to take a balanced approach to address life or death and Poverty or Prosperity to its subjectsWith minimal restriction in place, goverment should do more brain stroming and find smart stratergies to improve the economy and healthcare support systems to address this Pandemic. the Covid -19 has runged a sound bell to the policymakers across the globe, that apart from prepardness of attck the human enemies, it's much more critical and need of the hour to strongly prepare the health care systems of the country to prepare Pandemic war. This covid-19 might be an eye-opener for goverment to act smart to create a strong health care system to handle all future pandemics.

Apart from the Economy related impacts, the continued lockdown lead to other critical issues like mental depression and Domestic violence which impacts the people very much.

It's very crucial, people should feel and act responsible during this crisis and they should provide more support to the goverement by manitaining self disciple and show their care for the people in their family and surroundings. Though it would be very difficult, but every individual should continue to follow the instrcution provided by goverment/office/local bodies till the drug to eradicate the coronavirus successfully tested and released.

Goverment has created variety of stratergies like long lockdown, relaxation with rules,phased lockdowns,geographical based lockdown,stop and go lockdowns and Age wise lockdowns. These stratergies are being shuffled and followed by the countires based on the impact analysis.

Goverments release lockdowns in phases to improve the life of people based on business sectors. But people in business should think more than profit and take more reponsibility to control its customers. Business people should not let the customers to violate the rules,which actually impacts their custoemrs and also to them in health and economy wise. Since ,if any particular business deviates the goverment policies,then goverment authorities might seal shop and if such acitvity becomes uncontrollable then the entire business sector will be locked down.