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CLASS K-18

TEXT 1:
In the essay titled “Public health or economy? the COVID-19 dilemma” , Euston Quah, Eik Leong
Swee, and Donghyun Park claims that a balance between lost lives during this pandemic and lost
livelihoods can be fixed (paragraph 1). Applying restriction to our neighborhood would be nice to reduce
the increasing number of infection, fend off hospital from being full. But in the same way it will disable
businesses, education, and even slowing down economy. Obviously this will be debated until the
pandemic is over. Right now the best thing that could be done are focusing on re-building the economy
with major restriction to guarantee public health on pandemic.

This essay contribute to a larger debate about the failure to suppress the spread of COVID-19 may
have adverse impact on the GDP and employment. Most neighborhood calculation should not only include
activities with existing market prices. But activities which are useful but underpriced have to be included
in the calculation of cost of lockdowns in terms of lost GDP and employment. Therefore they should
include the value of recreation and leisure, household production, and potential marital and family
conflict. Moreover, they should work-from-home, stay-at-home, self-quarantine, and limited to travel
anywhere especially to their home countries or areas. While assuring the health of individuals with doing
lockdowns, they still have values in the society.

The other options should be considered for comparison is given that elderly residents and
individuals with pre-existing health conditions are mostly vulnerable to COVID-19, restriction could be
selected at them while permitting other segments of the economy to reopen. This will ensure that the
number of cases is going down while the economy is going up.

As a human my life may be priceless from a moral perspective but in the real world, we values
ourself into money all the time. Society sometimes willing to trade lives with livelihoods because on long-
term the disfigurement of learning and earning due to shutdowns must take into account for a more
complete cost benefit analysis. From my perspective public health and economy must be balance with
trying all the options that available for the government and the society itself. Even if we are too late but
there is nothing is impossible to save lives as well as livelihoods.