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Pandemic in sentence

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A basic income would not cure the stress pandemic, but it would reduce its intensity and prevalence.
The Fable of the Chinese WhistleblowerNEW HAVEN/HONG KONG – Public opinion in the United States pins the blame for the COVID-19 pandemic squarely on China.
If only that had happened sooner, the argument goes, the world would have avoided this horrific pandemic.
After all, unlike a hurricane or earthquake, the pandemic has caused no damage to the physical capital stock.
In other words, while there has been no destruction of physical capital in the pandemic, the risk of damage to human capital is significant.
Over the past year, cybersecurity personnel worldwide have faced a surge of hacks against critical infrastructure, including institutions fighting the COVID-19 pandemic.
Rather than address the sources of alienation, and mistrust – including income inequality, economic insecurity, and insufficient cooperation against global threats such as the current pandemic – populists manufacture bogeymen.
By contrast, the global public goods that only multilateralism can deliver – from pandemic control to a healthy planet – disproportionately benefit the least privileged.
And there was even more praise for Sunak’s March 17 announcement of an extra £350 billion to support UK businesses through the coronavirus pandemic.
It is to be hoped that the COVID-19 pandemic will not force today’s governments to make such a choice.
But now, as the pandemic has dragged on, the crisis is moving to a new phase, marked by significantly higher solvency risks for firms.
It is well known that during the pandemic, the adoption of digital technologies, such as in e-commerce, has accelerated significantly.
But its engines will not be the same as before the pandemic.
The virulence of the current outbreak of culture war partly reflects the lack of alternative news: the media cannot live off the pandemic alone, and the normal business of economics, politics, and international affairs is at a standstill.
As with the ongoing global fight against the coronavirus pandemic, our best hope for tackling the climate crisis may instead lie with systems science.
Because of the pandemic, however, terms like contagion rate and social distancing, previously limited to systems-science circles, are now in everyday use.
Until a vaccine arrives, all governments can do is change the virus’s context so that the pandemic runs out of steam.
Rather, they need to look beyond mainstream economics and engage with people who understand complex systems, in the same way that they listen to epidemiologists and doctors during a pandemic.
Driving network effects and breaking path dependencies is not easy, but several governments’ responses to the pandemic show how networks can be mapped and managed.
The ongoing pandemic has brought about global shifts, good as well as bad, in a matter of weeks and months, while climate policy is usually framed in terms of decades.
By applying lessons from the pandemic, we can finally start tackling the other major global crisis we face with the urgency it demands.
Similarly, the Spanish Flu pandemic that killed more than 50 million people in 1918-19 highlighted the vulnerability of entire countries in the absence of widespread access to basic health care.
Today, the COVID-19 pandemic and its many ramifications threaten to push our social, political, and economic structures to the breaking point.
Likewise, beating back this pandemic will require that our commitment to life be truly universal.
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia says that 55 million people in the region require some sort of humanitarian assistance, and that displaced women and girls are especially vulnerable in a pandemic.
In the midst of a pandemic, some voters may favor the more dominant candidate and may be less concerned about how likeable he or she is.
An effective, rules-based international trade system is a public good, and failure to revive it will undermine governments’ efforts to pull the global economy out of the recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
While our challenges are different, we are linked by the fact that the pandemic has put much of this at risk.
Two billion people lack access to waste-management systems, and the pandemic is likely worsening the situation.
But there is an additional, less noticed cause: the Connecticut Compromise of 1787, which handicapped American democracy at its inception, and has since undercut Congress’s response to the pandemic.
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