The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous hardship around the world. It has disrupted economies and societies, threatening millions of livelihoods and pushing many into poverty and food insecurity. The pandemic damaged the entire global economy and showed its vulnerability. It hindered farmers from accessing markets and disrupted food supply chains. While the changes caused by the pandemic will be difficult to accept, the author believes Filipinos can adapt well to new challenges. The pandemic will reshape countries for generations to come, but with adaptation to new circumstances and faith, societies can embrace a "new normal."
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous hardship around the world. It has disrupted economies and societies, threatening millions of livelihoods and pushing many into poverty and food insecurity. The pandemic damaged the entire global economy and showed its vulnerability. It hindered farmers from accessing markets and disrupted food supply chains. While the changes caused by the pandemic will be difficult to accept, the author believes Filipinos can adapt well to new challenges. The pandemic will reshape countries for generations to come, but with adaptation to new circumstances and faith, societies can embrace a "new normal."
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous hardship around the world. It has disrupted economies and societies, threatening millions of livelihoods and pushing many into poverty and food insecurity. The pandemic damaged the entire global economy and showed its vulnerability. It hindered farmers from accessing markets and disrupted food supply chains. While the changes caused by the pandemic will be difficult to accept, the author believes Filipinos can adapt well to new challenges. The pandemic will reshape countries for generations to come, but with adaptation to new circumstances and faith, societies can embrace a "new normal."
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused tremendous hardship around the world. It has disrupted economies and societies, threatening millions of livelihoods and pushing many into poverty and food insecurity. The pandemic damaged the entire global economy and showed its vulnerability. It hindered farmers from accessing markets and disrupted food supply chains. While the changes caused by the pandemic will be difficult to accept, the author believes Filipinos can adapt well to new challenges. The pandemic will reshape countries for generations to come, but with adaptation to new circumstances and faith, societies can embrace a "new normal."
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Daniella Marie C.
Fajardo
2BSA-1
The Contemporary World
Activity #2
How the covid-19 pandemic will reshape the Philippines and other countries' social and economic connections?
Year 2020 bought us a lot of fear, danger and anxiety attack. It is a tough year for everyone around the world. It began March 2020 when our government authorities put us on lockdown. At first, we taught it is just an ordinary communicable disease that can be easily prevented but we are all wrong about it. The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an on- going pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by the transmission of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which was first identified in December 2019 in Wuhan, China. The outbreak was declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern in January 2020, and a pandemic in March 2020. A pandemic is defined as “an epidemic occurring worldwide, or over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people”. The classical definition includes nothing about population immunity, virology or disease severity. By this definition, pandemics can be said to occur annually in each of the temperate southern and northern hemispheres, given that seasonal epidemics cross international boundaries and affect a large number of people. However, seasonal epidemics are not considered pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The economic and social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating: tens of millions of people are at risk of falling into extreme poverty, while the number of undernourished people, currently estimated at nearly 690 million, could increase by up to 132 million by the end of the year.
Millions of enterprises face an existential threat. Nearly half of the world’s
3.3 billion global workforces are at risk of losing their livelihoods. Informal economy workers are particularly vulnerable because the majority lack social protection and access to quality health care and have lost access to productive assets. Without the means to earn an income during lockdowns, many are unable to feed themselves and their families. For most, no income means no food, or, at best, less food and less nutritious food.
The pandemic has damaged the whole economy and society and has shown its vulnerability. Border closures, trade barriers and containment policies have hindered farmers from entering markets, including the purchase and sale of products and the processing of crops by farm workers, thus disrupting domestic and foreign food supply chains and limiting access to nutritious, secure and sustainable diets. Millions of working and self-employed farm workers face high levels of labour insecurity, malnutrition and poor health on a daily basis when feeding the nation, and suffer from a lack of safety and labour security as well as other forms of violence.
It is very hard to bring back our life before this pandemic happens but Filipinos can easily adapt to the changes we have to face in our present time because it is natural to us. We face challenges with a smile. For me, this pandemic reshape our countries in a lot of aspects, it bring us a lot of challenges to face in our society until the next generation but I do believe that in order to grow we have to adapt changes in life and live with it. Change is the only constant thing in this world. Maybe it is hard to accept that things may never go back to normal, we just have to embrace the “new normal” that we have. Just believe in the power of prayer and have faith to God.
