ESSAY

“COVID AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACT”

AUTHOR: LESLIE VERÓNICA LEY ARTEAGA
 COVID-19 AND ITS GLOBAL IMPACT

In life there are always trials to overcome for the human being, the pandemic that is

currently being experienced is more than an unfortunate historical act, it is a passage that brings

with it teachings and lessons that the human being must learn if he wants to survive on this

planet. Coronaviruses are a group of viruses responsible for causing various respiratory ailments

in humans, what makes them dangerous is their rapid ability to spread, which occurs when an

infected person coughs, sneezes or breathes, and being a heavy virus, the particles are deposited

on surfaces.

The rate of infection has been so high that the epidemic of COVID-19 was declared a

public health emergency of international concern by the WHO on January 30, 2020, and since

then different media and specialists have sought ways to visualize the consequences that the

pandemic will bring worldwide, which has led to the question, will there be a normality after the

pandemic?

One of the consequences of the pandemic, and mainly of the confinement, is that many

businesses were forced to close their doors, as well as the world tourism stopped, so that the

trade of products was reduced and because of this, the production of economic sources was also

reduced, causing many people to lose their jobs, evidencing at the same time, the economic and

social inequality of the countries. According to data provided by the official UN website, it is

expected that at the end of the pandemic, approximately 96 million people worldwide will be

plunged into extreme poverty, "weakened social protection systems left the most disadvantaged

people in society defenseless, without any safeguards to weather the storm," says Ginette

Azcona, lead author of the latest UN Women report From Insights to Action and senior data and

research specialist at UN Women.

 At the same time, media around the world have compared the economic situation with the

crisis suffered in 1929 known as "The Great Depression", will it be possible to overcome another

"Great Depression"? in this new era, will society have the means to do so? the answer is

uncertain.

In addition to the above, in the area of education we can observe a considerable

backwardness of knowledge, because despite the efforts that education systems worldwide have

made to maintain active education through distance or "online" classes, students do not receive

the knowledge in the same way, because at home there may be various distractions and in some

cases, economic, family and / or social limitations, For example, a large percentage of students

do not have an electronic device that allows them to receive this type of distance education, as a

result, there has been an increase in school dropout rates worldwide.

Innovation in educational methodology is a fact, which is why public policies and

economic support must also be established to enable the most vulnerable groups of students and

teachers to join these trends and not remain behind. However, it has also become clear that the

use of technology in education is essential, but it can never replace a good teacher.

"We will not go back to normality because normality was the problem", E. Zamorano.

The pandemic caused by the coronavirus is a demonstration that humanity is so

vulnerable, human life and health are the most important thing, it is clear that no country has

what it takes to control this kind of situations, that money and "influences" do not guarantee

well-being; interpersonal relationships are more important before any electronic device, but,

above all, that teachers, doctors, nurses and other health workers, are much more essential than

any famous person such as singers, actors, players, etc., and, even so, they are not valued as they

deserve.
 "Life can only be understood by looking backward, but it must be lived forward," Søren

Kierkegaard.

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