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first covid outbreak
china dec 8 2019
then spread to 30+ countries around the world
public health approach
enhancing capacity of clinic/hospitals, strict quarantine of infected patients, handwashing campaigns, coughing etiquette, lockdown
shifts in demand during public health approach
increase in demand for masks by all individuals worldwide
consquences
social anxiety, increased paranoia
risk society
way of dealing with hazards and insecurities when introduced to them
reflexive modernization
unintended nad unforeseen side effects modern life
–> backfire on modernity
effects of corona on risk society
risk society leads to vulnerable society
sentiments on risk
all groups felt at risk during covid
investments should be made to manage conflicting opinions and quell paranoia about public health and security issues
additional changes
worldwide sense of fragility
increased demand for sterile society safe from all outside hazards
preventions of sterile society
occurrences of new variations
sociological impacts of covid
widening gaps between rich and poor, black and white, men and women
gender division in labor
gender divison in labor
at home domestic obligations for women intensified during lockdown while feminized occupations like nursing and hospital cleaning were front line
increased demand on all fronts
side effects of lockdowns
concerns with increased domestic violence; trapping mothers and children with abusers
employment and market collapse worldwide
social contact and covid
enables virus growth; prevention efforts targeted this
overpopulation and overcrowding in cities aid spread in covid
sweden
no masks, no lockdowns, no nothing –> barely any loss –> some attempts may be worse than the disease itself
