{"id":115560,"date":"2021-06-26T17:47:41","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=115560"},"modified":"2021-06-26T17:47:41","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T00:47:41","slug":"epidemic-control-and-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/06\/26\/epidemic-control-and-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"EPIDEMIC CONTROL AND SOCIAL DISTANCING"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY EDWARD THEOPHILUS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

Sri\nLanka had been experienced the control of various human epidemics since its\nhuman history There are contrasting opinions on this matter.). All epidemics\nwere in Sri Lanka had been controlled by the use of the most powerful technique,\nsocial distancing. The term has a different meaning in a practical situation\nand it should be adapted to an epidemic in which the actual nature was\nidentified. Humans have specific wisdom and they use such wisdom to get out of\nan epidemic. The idea of social distancing naturally comes to each person when\nthey were born. At the beginning of COVID-19, the public was instructed by\nHealth Authorities to follow social distancing rules, health, and hygiene\npractices. In urban areas, social distancing is the most difficult role that\nmakes many apprehensions in adhering to. The major reason is an excessive\npopulation in towns and the cultural habit of people and characteristics of\npeople force them not to listen to instruction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nexcessive population has been created by ignoring population controls. Many\nfactors that have been contributed to the increase in family members and\nreligions discouraged family planning without logical reasons. The direct\nimpact of over-population is the shortage of resources for people, especially\nland for housing, more people migrating to urban areas from rural areas,\ndividing lands into small pieces, fewer job opportunities in urban towns than\nthe rural area, increase in need of transport facilities, a requirement of the location\nof education institutions in urban areas, and many other thousands of concussions.\nA large population has become an arduous factor in controlling the Covid\npandemic and many people such as politicians, social activists, and religious\nguides are scared to talk about the truth as they will be unpopular among the\npublic. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe modern era, an additional issue has arisen with the increasing population\nthat is relating to looking after elderly people. In Western countries, looking\nafter elderly people or age care is an industry that provides many employment\nopportunities. Small age care business is in Sri Lanka, but value practice is\nchildren look after parents and it is not a business. It is observable a simple\nconflict of attitudes on age care in Sri Lanka and developed countries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developed\ncountries use social integration as a strategy for the increase of employment\nopportunities in various ventures (sports, nightclubs, cinemas, dramas halls,\nparty venues, restaurants, and many places) while attempting to give happiness\nto people, and social distancing treats against social integration for economic\npurposes and promotes business opportunities in service area. Not only in Sri\nLanka but also people in other countries cry against social distance practices.\nIt is observed that people in Sri Lanka manipulated minor issues and\npoliticians jump into such situations and make the big pass on the issue. Mr. Gotabhaya\nRajapaksa has explained the truth about the pandemic by his reason public\naddress. He has a wonderful vision and mission. Covid it was not created by him\nand people think mistakenly, he handles it. It is wrong and blaming him for the\nglobal problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Disciplining\nhas become a way of socialization and now, social distancing should be treated\nas a part of socialization. The major role of schools to train kids for\nsocialization promoting values as parents have to take part in workplaces for\nearning money for living, and parents have less time to educate kids about\nsocialization. Social distancing has become an essential part of controlling\npandemics and people have relegated many obscure when social distance is\neffective. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Developed\ncountries incorporated many aspects of disciplining kids, and the education in\nSri Lanka and India failed to discipline people to understand issues and work\nconsistently to the advice of authorities. This situation became the major\nreason to go covid out of control and the policymakers have not taken into\nconsideration this side of epidemic control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Historical\ninformation provides that Sri Lanka suffered from various epidemics, one of the\nmajor epidemics was smallpox that killed hierarchies of administration in the\nKandyan kingdom.  Smallpox and all other\nepidemics were controlled by using the technique of social distance and in\nhistory, nobody went against social distancing practices, however, it shows now\nthat people do not respect social distancing practice, and daily report of\ncovid infection is going up and a considerable volume of people killed from the\ndisease.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Social\ndistancing, general health, and hygiene practice, and value education are\nessential curriculum that should be educated in schools. Kids in Sri Lanka want\nto gain education to work overseas because they cannot find work in the country\nand young people have a mythical view that going overseas is the best option\nthey have because opportunities in the country are less and when critically\nevaluate the idea it shows that those who have gone overseas are not spending a\nhappy life because they achieved the wish and many use the achievement to make\nlies on a life of overseas.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia,\nNew Zealand, and many countries have successfully controlled the pandemic (1)\npopulation is lesser in those countries consistent with the land area, (2)\npeople are disciplined and listen to authorities (3) governments quickly take\naction, politics did not become a barrier to implement instruction. It is\nshowed that people were not disciplined in Sri Lanka, they broke social\ndistance rule, health, and hygiene instruction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nthe policy development process, the government of Sri Lanka needs to stress the\nfollowing areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  • People should be\nmotivated to maintain one child for a family, and like in China, this rule\nshould be successfully implemented. Religions and races are immaterial in this\npractice.<\/li>
  • Sri Lanka should plan to\nreduce the population to 15.0 million in the country within the next 10 to 20\nyears without a racial and religious difference.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Large\npopulation in the world have created many problems, many economists look at\nthis issue from market aspect but it creates many disadvantages. I can predict\nthat if the population of Sri Lanka at the level of 1972 Covid will not spread\nlike today. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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