Life Lessons of the Pandemic ”Covid - 19” (original) (raw)

Global Challenges After a Global Challenge: Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic

The COVID-19 Aftermath, Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, 2024

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected not only individual lives but also the world and global systems, both natural and human-made. Besides millions of deaths and environmental challenges, the rapid spread of the infection and its very high socioeconomic impact have affected healthcare, economic status and wealth, and mental health across the globe. To better appreciate the pandemic’s influence, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches are needed. In this chapter, world-leading scientists from different backgrounds share collectively their views about the pandemic’s footprint and discuss challenges that face the international community.

Let's Change Lanes: The Lessons of Coronavirus

Topkapı Journal of Social Science, 2022

Humanity has been struggling with a pandemic that has been effective in the economic, political and social fields of the world for the last two years. Although there are many reasons for the spread of the coronavirus on a global scale shortly after its emergence in Wuhan, China in October 2019, scientists have explained the emergence of the epidemic in such a short time with interdependence and globalization. Edgar Morin's book Let's Change Lanes: The Lessons of Coronavirus is about the social impacts and emerging problems of the pandemic caused by the coronavirus. In this study, Morin claims that new world order is possible based on humanism, based on the experience of uncertainty created by the coronavirus pandemic and the teachings of the future crisis. In this respect, we will focus on the book's evaluations of what a new world order is.

Essay about COVID-19 and the world efforts

SCITECH requirement, 2020

On December 31st, 2020, reports of the first case of Covid-19 had surfaced the city of Wuhan, China. Since then, the outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern and reached almost all corners of the world and in a short time it became a pandemic resulting for lots of countries to raise up their walls declaring lockdowns, travel ban, and to practice social distancing. This had lead for the World health Organization (WHO) to work 24/7 to analyze data related to this new type of coronavirus, provide necessary advice, coordinate with different sectors and partners in an international scale, help countries prepare, increase supplies, and manage expert networks. Now, as of April 18th, 2020, there are almost 2 million coronavirus cases, 150 thousand deaths, and 580 thousand recovered across the globe and counting.

As humanity copes through a pandemic

2020

The media began addressing the COVID 19, in January 2020. A report was circulated of a new respiratory virus spreading in Wuhan, China. By the 1st February, 14.3K cases were said to be counted in major cities in China, including Beijing and Shanghai. The virus travelled from China all over the world. The world began to unfold a new pandemic as countries in Europe, North America and Africa declared their first cases. The World Health Organisation declared a global health emergency on 30th January, and on 11th March, the WHO elevated the emergency to a pandemic. In March, 2020 It was estimated that 20% of the global population was living with restricted movement. Fast forward to nine months to September 7th as I write this editorial comment, 27,296,303 people have been affected and 887,599 deaths have taken place (Worldometer, 2020). Hundreds and thousands died in European nations and continue to die in USA and UK, India and Brazil. Several thousands died before the world took this se...

CRISIS AFTER CRISIS OR WHAT WE LEARNED FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

has a particularly important significance, in a negative sense, for mankind, due to the discovery of the new coronavirus in the markets of Wuhan, China, being also the moment when the Covid-19 pandemic began (Peptan, Peptan, 2021a; Peptan, Peptan, 2021b)). The world has been "shaken" and the medical community has been under enormous pressure to try to stop, or slow, the spread of the virus around the world. The danger was becoming more and more visible, and the number of new infections and deaths due to contact with the virus was increasing alarmingly by the day. The virus could not be contained although the world's governments reacted quickly, but none of them proved prepared for such a pandemic scenario. Scientific journals and others have made space available for research on the new coronavirus in an effort to help spread new findings that could end the pandemic. Also, our journal, Annals of Constantin Brancusi University of Targu Jiu-Letters and Social Sciences Series showed interest and allocated space for studies dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. (Peptan, Mărcău, 2021a; Mărcău, Peptan, 2021b). The scientific community came together in an attempt to find a solution to the new problem, with encouraging results when the first SARS-CoV-II vaccine was announced. A first crisis seemed to have passed as a result of the appearance of new vaccines created to prevent severe symptoms caused by Covid-19 (Cavanaugh, Spicer et al., 2021), but the pandemic continued its course with the emergence of new mutations of the virus (Murillo-Zamora, Trujillo et al., 2021), capable of evading antibodies generated by vaccination (Fathizadeh, Afshar et al., 2021). Although it was hoped that the virus would be brought under control and the intensity of the pandemic would decrease, a new crisis has emerged and it has been linked to people's determination to accept the new vaccines. The lack of an elementary medical culture among the majority of the population has seriously affected their decision to be vaccinated with the new Covid-19 vaccines, thus creating two camps: for and against vaccination (Mărcău, Peptan et. al., 2022a; Fedele, Aria et al., 2021).

The pandemic that poses challenges beyond health

Policy Brief, 2021

The more we can advance in knowledge about the New Coronavirus (COVID-19), the greater are the chances of fighting it. In this sense, the achievements of science have been impressive. However, it is essential to reflect on the impacts of the current pandemic on the economic, political, and social spheres, beyond the acceleration of global power reorganization whose epicenter may no longer be restricted to the developed West. Concerning the economy, the scenario is of bankruptcies and market concentration among large companies. In the orbit of politics, polarization, and worsening of xenophobic nationalism. In the social sphere, unemployment and increasing inequalities. About global power, the growing projection of East Asia is imposed on decision-makers at the same speed with which dissent divides opinions on these themes.

The COVID-19 pandemic, path to transforming our world

14th Annual International Scientific Conference February 10 th, 2021 at Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia Conference Proceedings Banská Bystrica, Slovakia 2021 © Interpolis, 2021 Banská Bystrica, Slovakia ISBN 978-80-973394-5-6, 335-346 , 2021

The COVID 19 pandemic exacerbated existing global challenges, further exposing the underlying causes of insecurity, social and economic inequality with overtones of racial tension and nationalism. In this perspective, the pandemic represents a rare but narrow window of opportunity to reflect, reimagine, and reset our world. We are facing with a new form of “stakeholder” capitalism which is being advanced in the guise of global governance, biosecurity, the “new normal”, the “New Deal for Nature” and the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. In the current global system, powerful, mostly Western states already exercise enormous influence in international relations, within intergovernmental organizations such as the World Trade Organization, International Monetary Fund and United Nations Security Council, World Economic Forum. We are vitnesed the period when the compelling power of governments and individuals could change the path of international relations and tramfomation of our current political order. Suspension of normalcy due to the security threat constituted by the coronavirus pandemic brought to a certain redistribution of power in the society and particularly in politics.