Crowd control due to a hard time

Summary 

According to "Coronavirus: New York warns of major medical shortages in 10 days." (2020), the city's mayor, Bill de Blasio, warned that the hospital in New York would face penury of medical supplies in 10 days. It would lead to a significant death toll to raise up rapidly. The city's mayor wanted to increase awareness from the government. Even though, they had announced that the country is in a major disaster. Trump had sent medical supplies to the worst-hit state; such as New York, Washington, and California. However, Illinois governor declared that masks, gowns, gloves are insufficient for frontline medical teams and now we are against each other to get that, also Washington and California still required a load of ventilators. Recently, the Democrat vote for the rejection of an emergency stimulus bill to boost up an economy during the pandemic.                   

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Response 

Choosing the Covid-19 topic to write an opinion, now inadequate medical supplies have become huge trouble around the world and I wonder what the US government would react so I continue reading it. Firstly, I was scared by the headline, later on, the feeling leads me to think about how each country doing its crowd control among the worries. Focusing on China, Korea, and Thailand how did three countries individually coping with the issue.

Beginning with, China, Covid originates from Wuhan city, Dr. Li Wenliang was the first doctor warning about the virus, but the police claimed that he told rumor and investigate him. In addition, the government knew that was true but they censored the truth in every channel. Online platforms, for example, We Chat, people unable to search the word related to the virus. The anger spread wildly after Dr passed-away by one month, at that time thousands of people were infected. Censoring happens because China runs by communism, if anythings affect public security, it would be ban from their system. Keeping a citizen in claim stages might be a good choice rather than announcing the fact and let's chaos run the country. In contrast, covering important information once they need related to infect tolls, lacking accurate communication making people scared and confused, when people didn't know what was going on leading them to have less caution, No one knows that this spread easily without protecting themself and proper prevention, cause the virus spread wildly and rapidly not only in the country but it has become an epidemic and finally pandemic at the end. 

Second, Korea, super spreader started in the religious group, one of the plans was launched an aggressive and transparent information campaign to educate people about the virus. Dr. Justin Fendos, who work closely with the Korean government said that transparent information was the essential first step in any containment effort. The attempt had shown that the government worked differently with China. In addition, the government informed risk factors through everyone by phone text messages such as show them a list of the restaurants, shops or churches to show that how many people were there at the period of time to let others decide whether they should go there or risk or not. Another way was broadcasted daily general advice through every media and platform such as television, internet, and newspaper to remind people, avoiding crowded places. All this act did for preventing their citizens from fake news and rumors, so every people understood it clearly then they knew how to behave themselves and to prevent each other. 

Back in Thailand, the government should announce that we are in the third stage since the virus spread during boxing game in a big hall. When Mathew, actor, announcing that he infected the virus, however, the governor wanted to sue him back, this react told me that our government has a different mindset with Korean and also they were unaware of the disease enough this scared me that our leader was not educated about the virus clearly. The reaction that I wish from them is searching for a place that the actor got infected and announced it as a risk place and quickly inform others that might be risked because of Mathew. Before this case came up in the spotlight, many people still thought that healthy people won't be infected and there were not many people wearing a mask. Later on, I found that the army who runs the boxing stadium got a notification letter in advance to postpone the competition due to the virus issue but they decided to continue. I could say that I have no hope for my own government under the disaster.  

To conclude, I wish our country would pass the pandemic quickly, but to be frank I think we are not safe because our crowd is walking individually without strictly and powerful measures. Although the government had announced the curfew, thousands of people from Bangkok heading back to their home town, it could mean that the virus from the city spread throughout the whole country by migration.                                                                             
    
                                           
          

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Question

What do you think is the best way to do crowd control in our country in this time?

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Reference

• Coronavirus: New York warns of major medical shortages in 10 days. (2020, March 23). BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51998429