The Covid-19 pandemic (Coronavirus) has sparked a global test by laying the foundations for the creation of new social trends and attitudes throughout the world’s societies. As of Friday, April 24, the US recorded 50,243 deaths and 886,709 susceptible cases respectively from Covid-19.
Europe presents more than 89000 deaths and more than 809590 susceptible cases. The UK has 18738 deaths with 138078 susceptible cases. Iran 5481 deaths and 87026 susceptible cases. Brazil has 3531 deaths and 50036 susceptible cases, while Turkey has 2491 deaths with 101790 susceptible cases and China where the pandemic began has 4652 deaths and 82804 susceptible cases.
By Thanos S. Chonthrogiannis
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The Fight Against the Pandemic of Covid-19
We therefore note that the pandemic, apart from the developed countries of the world USA, the EU and the UK, is also spreading to developing countries with a high likelihood of creating destabilizing problems in them.
What is certain about almost all the affected countries on the planet is that the impact of tackling the pandemic will initiate developments at global and national level by creating new social trends and attitudes over time.
- How to treat vulnerable elderly people
The Pandemic of Covid-19 struck and continues to strike hard the older ages and especially the elderly with underlying disease who are also the most vulnerable.
It turns out that until the advent of Covid-19 in the foreground a man of 65-75 years was considered in a perfectly creative age and in relatively good biological condition. Even if there was an underlying disease, this, if it was constantly checked, was as if it did not exist and it did not affect his life.
Covid-19 will make all these people rethink their lifestyle with aim to reduce overconsumption of food and alcohol, smoking, etc. while giving more and more attention and care to themselves with better nutrition and more protection measures for themselves.
- The Institution of the Extended Family returns to the fore
In most western European countries, almost half the number of recorded deaths from Covid-19 are recorded in nursing homes. This tendency to send helpless elderly people to nursing homes, where there is a great deal of concentration, loneliness and in many cases of abandonment by their families must be reversed, because it turned out that these were the most vulnerable population groups and an easy target for Covid-19.
The solution to reverse this phenomenon is to prevail the institution of the extended family, where the elderly can also live close to their children and grandchildren within a reasonable framework.
Certainly, a difficult family environment in which family violence prevails is not suitable for the elderly and for children. But societies should start to move towards the institution of an enlarged family, which includes the elderly.
- Conscious Choice Now the Small Property
The return to the family property is expected to be reinforced in the coming years, because it proved to be a good defence in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic. In areas of Bergamo (North Italy) there was an impressive spread of the virus with the help of large residential complexes, where the occupants of the apartments, who worked in local enterprises alternated with great frequency.
- Quick restoration of National Self-Confidence
In several Western countries, the unsuccessful and immediate treatment of the Covid-19 pandemic forced entire peoples to go through the stage of national self-confidence in a period of doubt and introversion.
American citizens, for example, have found that their country is a superpower, but there are great social inequalities that leave many fellow citizens vulnerable to the pandemic, while the existence of no-cooperation between state governments and the Federal Government has made any administrative problems apparent.
The same goes for a point in the UK which has identified the administrative and organizational weaknesses of the NHS, and which it will have to correct in a timely time. So, what is certain is that the whole of the world’s societies will learn to think, socialize and operate in a different way now. At the same time, all societies together and each one alone will inevitably measure their social and economic strengths.
Major crises such as the Covid-19 pandemic will test the resilience of large systems, and societies in large countries either will adjust to new normality or the difficulties they face will bring to the surface great contrasts.
- The Credibility of Governmental Power
Always and for a certain period crisis create a rallying society around executive power in search of a way out. When the results of governmental power are particularly good, then this instinctive social clustering acquires characteristics of strengthening the credibility of the institutions and the state and vice versa.
- The Great Recession in the Tunnel
Most countries are heading for a major fall in their GDP with a drastic increase in the government budget deficit and as a percentage of GDP while at the same time increasing the Public Debt.
Millions of workers around the world will see their income shrink further. Many who are already on the professional and economic margin will see the lack of an effective welfare state, while the much-indebted citizens will relive the drama of bankruptcy.
Given these findings and the scale of the crisis, they require states to emphasize social solidarity and fair burden sharing. Accelerating the full digital transition is needed to bring societies back to new life sooner. At the same time, massive diagnostic tests, full case tracking and the issuance of health certificates are required.
The pandemic of Covid-19 imposes changes and affects the dynamics of societies directly and in the long term. The next day will be completely different from the previous day and given that the way we socialized and worked and generally lived until yesterday it is practically impossible to come back.
