The Global Economy in the 21St Century: Week 12 Discussion: COVID-19

After you have read all of the materials associated with this week’s topic and watched the recommended videos (they are long but very informative), you probably have formulated your personal opinion about the following issue: Are we prepared for another pandemic?

For this discussion, express your opinion from one of these sides:

• "Yes, the global community has learned a lot from 2019-2021 Coronavirus / COVID-19 and is prepared to deal with another similar pandemic" or
• "No, the debate that has happened and is still happening over it is interfering with progress being made for future preventative measures".

Please provide arguments explaining your position.

If both opinions are present in the discussion, we will have a real debate on the issue of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Please remember that all submitted posts: essays, discussion forum and journal reflection posts you can use in your Final Research paper. Please save all your posts.

Discussion Expectations

1. Visit the Forum site at least twice a week during two different days of this week and make a minimum of two direct responses to your peers. The responses should be well thought out and present relative information that has not already been posted.
2. Post a minimum of two responses to your peers and show where you agree or disagree with their analysis and explain why. Be sure your posts are relative and succinct.
3. As I read each week's posts, I will be looking at the content of the posting as well as the overall subject matter. I am looking for quality of the post vs. the quantity of words of your posts.

Readings

• Ruiz Estrada, Mario Arturo, et al. “Stagpression: The Economic and Financial Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Contemporary Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, Feb. 2021, pp. 19–33. EBSCOhost
• Khan, Alam, et al. “The Economic Impact of COVID-19 from a Global Perspective.” Contemporary Economics, vol. 15, no. 1, Feb. 2021, pp. 64–75. EBSCOhost'

Videos

• 10 Worst Epidemics in History (14:03)It’s hard to believe that something so tiny could destroy so many.

• Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone (23:27)

  Ebola Crisis in Sierra Leone (23:27)It's one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, working with those infected with Ebola. Unreported World went to meet the health workers of Sierra Leone's first dedicated Ebola treatment centre at the epicentre of the epidemic in 2014.

• Ebola 101 (3:01)

  Ebola 101 (3:01)Ebola is a rare, but extremely dangerous disease. Find out how many strains of Ebola exist, how the Ebola virus attacks its host, and the symptoms caused by the virus.

• Plague 101 (4:17)

  Plague 101 (4:17)What is plague? How many people died from the Black Death and the other plague pandemics? Learn about the bacterium behind the plague disease, how factors like trade and urbanization caused it to spread to every continent except Antarctica, and how three devastating pandemics helped shape modern medicine.

• How to Stop an Epidemic (Ebola) (16:00)

  How to Stop an Epidemic (Ebola) (16:00)This video explains how to stop an epidemic.

• COVID-19 (6:00)

  COVID-19 (6:00)From the symptoms to the severity, The National's Ian Hanomansing talks to an infectious disease expert about what we know so far about the coronavirus outbreak.