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Audience Rating - General Audience
Audience Rating - General Audience
A mindset for managing the Coronavirus state of affairs
An easy to understand opinion essay or analysis on managing the Coronavirus pandemic towards a survival and recovery point. A reflection-point analysis on the impact to the economy and beyond.
A stop, deferment, or a temporary postponement on all social and economic physical-multi-person-association in transactions? It’s part of a cure, it’s the right thing to do. It’s a judgement call, but more and more it’s becoming a thing of legal compliance for good measure.
Anyone and everyone, and everything social, economic, financial, political and epidemiological are at a crossroads in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. To protect against the harm, hurt, and dangers of this planetary pandemic requires an unparalleled and unprecedented cooperation and collaboration across all economies from personal to private, corporate, public, tribal, local, state, federal, national, international, inter-continental, and planetary.
Primarily, a change in our conduct and behavior has been a major turning point. From aggressive hygiene practices to isolation, quarantines, and lockdowns at social and economic scale has become a test of life and death consequences.
For the most vulnerable population at both ends of the age spectrum and any with underlying chronic medical conditions to isolate and stop personal contact beyond what is reasonable or allowable. Importantly, it’s not a time for panic which is not helpful, not necessary, and not required but a time for reflection, calm, and wise judgement and action.
On the personal or professional front, it’s more like we’ve left or set to rest or paused our projects and programs, products and services back in the workplace or place of trade to take on and pick-up a new high-priority project in health and safety of dire magnitude and with unforgiving consequences – a new critical mission for each individual and organization starting at the individual level!
Think of it as a critical project because it’s not expected to last a generation or even a half, or a quarter, or even not one moment longer we pray. We all have a stake in this pandemic health project, and in one way or another everyone is volunteer-told to pay heed, it’s not really an option, but yet for a good and necessary cause.
The goal is simple. As understood from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) who may be seen as the principal project manager in this effort, the goal is to avoid and minimize non-essential contact in order to reduce or eliminate the high-risk in surge capacity (to flatten the curve and avoid a spike) on the medical infrastructure. This allows for a successful scale-up of health infrastructure capacity and capabilities to meet the unknown volume, scale, and challenges of the prevailing pandemic threat. All of this while numerous parallel efforts at scale are ongoing towards developing greater stabilizing, protective, and immunization techniques, again at scale to counteract this planetary fast-moving pandemic.
How does all of this impact the economy? Simple. The most critical resource of an economy is the people! Saving people’s lives is saving the economy. No other economic, market, or speculative economic trend or data matters more in this off-season economic event or moment. This is not to be viewed as a recessionary or economic disaster of any sort. The best view of the situation is one where all normal economic activity is at a pause or postponement in order to manage a survival and existential threat.
Whether it’s job-loss, employment rate, capital expenditure, market loss, or any other economic data-driven metrics and factors these should all be suspended until the pandemic is managed and run-to-ground to a state of non-threat. It makes no sense to attack economic data or take economic readings or economic temperatures or draw bleak or stark images of economic malaise when the human health temperature is of the utmost focus, importance and priority.
Economy concern then and now is akin to ‘apples and oranges’. Resist the temptation to compare recent economic trend with current economic trend. Keep the focus on prevention and cure to protect the most important economic resource - PEOPLE.
In the context of being volunteer-told to help bring about an expedient resolution to this pandemic problem here is where the financial relief from the federal government is extremely beneficial and supportive. In other words, as one suspends the concern on economic data and replaces such concerns with survival data and with concern towards the fight for health and survival, here is where the compensation paid by the federal government to cover the basics of food and healthcare is critical in these unprecedented times.
One factor that should significantly reduce the need or pressure for social and economic physical-multi-person-association during the pandemic threat is the need to postpone, to defer, or to suspend the obligation of a debt or a credit.
This one gracious economic act in and of itself will provide the cognitive incentive to significantly reduce the need or pressure or requirement or perception for upholding non-emergency personal or organizational economy during the pandemic threat. This allows for that most important economic resource being “people” to stay at home, isolate, quarantine, lockdown, and comply with the law to protect, preserve, and save the lives of all vulnerable, not vulnerable, as well as the lives of healthcare personnel.
Significant efforts should be geared towards producing all products and services needed to sustain the healthcare infrastructure in its fight to stop the spread of the virus. Production should be geared towards maximum-protection clothing, masks, ventilators, mobile or trailer outfitted hospitals or mini-hospitals, beds, and other critical healthcare apparatus to meet the antiviral campaign and needs.
We know in time, and we pray that there will be a grand re-opening of social and economic activities but we could not possibly get to that point unless we address the new personal and professional conduct and behavioral needs required of us in light of the prevailing Coronavirus pandemic.
We pray for calm, understanding, wisdom, the will, guidance, and the foresight to respond sensibly with the resources in full measure and quantities to combat and to put to rest the Coronavirus pandemic.
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A stop, deferment, or a temporary postponement on all social and economic physical-multi-person-association in transactions? It’s part of a cure, it’s the right thing to do. It’s a judgement call, but more and more it’s becoming a thing of legal compliance for good measure.
Anyone and everyone, and everything social, economic, financial, political and epidemiological are at a crossroads in response to the Coronavirus pandemic. To protect against the harm, hurt, and dangers of this planetary pandemic requires an unparalleled and unprecedented cooperation and collaboration across all economies from personal to private, corporate, public, tribal, local, state, federal, national, international, inter-continental, and planetary.
Primarily, a change in our conduct and behavior has been a major turning point. From aggressive hygiene practices to isolation, quarantines, and lockdowns at social and economic scale has become a test of life and death consequences.
For the most vulnerable population at both ends of the age spectrum and any with underlying chronic medical conditions to isolate and stop personal contact beyond what is reasonable or allowable. Importantly, it’s not a time for panic which is not helpful, not necessary, and not required but a time for reflection, calm, and wise judgement and action.
On the personal or professional front, it’s more like we’ve left or set to rest or paused our projects and programs, products and services back in the workplace or place of trade to take on and pick-up a new high-priority project in health and safety of dire magnitude and with unforgiving consequences – a new critical mission for each individual and organization starting at the individual level!
Think of it as a critical project because it’s not expected to last a generation or even a half, or a quarter, or even not one moment longer we pray. We all have a stake in this pandemic health project, and in one way or another everyone is volunteer-told to pay heed, it’s not really an option, but yet for a good and necessary cause.
The goal is simple. As understood from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) who may be seen as the principal project manager in this effort, the goal is to avoid and minimize non-essential contact in order to reduce or eliminate the high-risk in surge capacity (to flatten the curve and avoid a spike) on the medical infrastructure. This allows for a successful scale-up of health infrastructure capacity and capabilities to meet the unknown volume, scale, and challenges of the prevailing pandemic threat. All of this while numerous parallel efforts at scale are ongoing towards developing greater stabilizing, protective, and immunization techniques, again at scale to counteract this planetary fast-moving pandemic.
How does all of this impact the economy? Simple. The most critical resource of an economy is the people! Saving people’s lives is saving the economy. No other economic, market, or speculative economic trend or data matters more in this off-season economic event or moment. This is not to be viewed as a recessionary or economic disaster of any sort. The best view of the situation is one where all normal economic activity is at a pause or postponement in order to manage a survival and existential threat.
Whether it’s job-loss, employment rate, capital expenditure, market loss, or any other economic data-driven metrics and factors these should all be suspended until the pandemic is managed and run-to-ground to a state of non-threat. It makes no sense to attack economic data or take economic readings or economic temperatures or draw bleak or stark images of economic malaise when the human health temperature is of the utmost focus, importance and priority.
Economy concern then and now is akin to ‘apples and oranges’. Resist the temptation to compare recent economic trend with current economic trend. Keep the focus on prevention and cure to protect the most important economic resource - PEOPLE.
In the context of being volunteer-told to help bring about an expedient resolution to this pandemic problem here is where the financial relief from the federal government is extremely beneficial and supportive. In other words, as one suspends the concern on economic data and replaces such concerns with survival data and with concern towards the fight for health and survival, here is where the compensation paid by the federal government to cover the basics of food and healthcare is critical in these unprecedented times.
One factor that should significantly reduce the need or pressure for social and economic physical-multi-person-association during the pandemic threat is the need to postpone, to defer, or to suspend the obligation of a debt or a credit.
This one gracious economic act in and of itself will provide the cognitive incentive to significantly reduce the need or pressure or requirement or perception for upholding non-emergency personal or organizational economy during the pandemic threat. This allows for that most important economic resource being “people” to stay at home, isolate, quarantine, lockdown, and comply with the law to protect, preserve, and save the lives of all vulnerable, not vulnerable, as well as the lives of healthcare personnel.
Significant efforts should be geared towards producing all products and services needed to sustain the healthcare infrastructure in its fight to stop the spread of the virus. Production should be geared towards maximum-protection clothing, masks, ventilators, mobile or trailer outfitted hospitals or mini-hospitals, beds, and other critical healthcare apparatus to meet the antiviral campaign and needs.
We know in time, and we pray that there will be a grand re-opening of social and economic activities but we could not possibly get to that point unless we address the new personal and professional conduct and behavioral needs required of us in light of the prevailing Coronavirus pandemic.
We pray for calm, understanding, wisdom, the will, guidance, and the foresight to respond sensibly with the resources in full measure and quantities to combat and to put to rest the Coronavirus pandemic.
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