Summary
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Response
As we have previously done, we will discuss Rogers and Zemach's question in blog commnets, which is likely to generate a wider variety of ideas in addition to giving us a more permanent record of our ideas while also getting in some practice writing for fluency in a less academic style, but still writing our ideas in grammatically complete sentences that clearly state our ideas.
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Questions 1 & 2
- Why do you think that people rarely talk about the economic effects of disease?
- Which of the six economic impacts described in the text do you think is the worst? Why?
- I did not post it on Classroom earlier, but my one-sentence list of the six economic impacts, one topic for each body paragraph, is:
The economic impacts that the reading discusses are: reduced production of goods and services (para. 2); increased health costs, which use up scarce resources (para. 3); higher costs for social services (para. 4); reduction in tourism, especially when infectious disease causes panic (para. 5); lifestyle diseases (para. 6); and less tax and other resources to help those in need (para. 7).
- planning = 3:00 minutes
- writing = 9:00 minutes, and
- editing = 3:00 minutes.
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Reference
- Rogers, L. & Zemach, D. E. (2018). Skillful 3: Reading & Writing (2nd. ed.). London: Macmillan Education
I think that people don't usually think about the economic impact of disease because we don't usually get seriously ill. But if we do get sick, we might think about the economic impact on us; however, when our friends or relatives have a minor illness, we are more likely to just worry about how they are, not the effect that a cold or something has on their bank account. I don't think I ever thought much about the economic effects of my own illnesses on the national economy. But this has changed a bit the past couple of months. I think that everyone in Thaland and around the world is thinking about the ecnomic impacts of disease because with Covid-19, they are very easy to see, as we have previously discussed in our class.
ReplyDeleteWhich of the economic impacts is the worst? It's hard to pick one because when I think about them, all six of the impacts discussed in the six body paragraphs of the essay seem important. If I had to pick just one, I think that the lower productivity might be the most important. Usually this is only minor when averaged over a whole economy, but with the current Covid-19 situation, a lot of production is being seriously affected, and that can have serious consequences for everyone, from getting enough food to getting services that are important. I read in a couple of BBC News stories this morning, for example, that in India some people might not have food because of the economic impact of Covid-19, and also that in Italy, which has been very badly affected, some people are having trouble getting food for their families. And in Australia, my own country, there are worries about harvesting fruit and vegetables. A lot of travellers work to harvest Australia's grapes, apples, asparagus and other foods, and at the moment, they cannot do that.
But the last item on the list, the lower tax income because of illness also seems to me to be something that will be a serious problem for many countries following Covid-19.
In my opinion, people rarely talk about the economic effects of disease because when we are in middle of pandemic, they only focus on the way to cope with the disease so make them overlook the effects that might be come after the pandemic especially the financial crisis.
ReplyDeleteI think, the problem about loss of many lives are the worst economic impacts. First if we loss many lives through that mean we also loss the human resource that are the people who work for industries or other sectors, so it affected directly to the economic. As a result of that economic will shut down such as the government can’t get a tax.
People rarely talk about the economic effects of disease when they are not acknowledge about the effect of the problem they may worry on what happens in front of their face like the disease and how to cure it rather than focusing on effects that leads economic problems.
ReplyDeleteThe worst economic impact of the disease is the population as a whole. Each generation depend on each other such as children, for example, especially babies they need some body to take care of them since they are unable to help themselves, another example is the elder are depend on younger generation with the same reason. So the relation between each generation important and it related to the whole population. To conclude, the disease could cause extinction in any species.
People rarely talk about the economic effects of diseases, probably because, unlike the health effects and losses of lives, the economic impacts are not obviously noticed at an individual level. For instance, almost everybody may not think that just a day off from work can affect economic output. Also, when we are getting medical services, we usually consider only the costs of medical services and prescriptions. Still, the prices behind that are typically overlooked, such as the salaries of medical staff, which are not limited to only doctors, the cost of hospital maintenance, or government subsidies on public health.
ReplyDeleteToday, as the situation of COVID-19 is getting worse, I think the impact on tourism is almost certainly the worst for Thailand. The reason is the country's income is mostly dependent on tourism revenues. When the tourism industry collapses, it affects not only a lot of employees but also includes their families and the income of the government too. And when the government income is getting decline, it is harder to subsidize the public health and the country's economy.
Majority of people tend to look over the economic impacts of the disease or epidemic. There is a reason of such behaviour. They think that saving life should be the first priority, leading to focusing on only one aspect.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, not only do disease affect on that term, it also result in economic crisis. There are 6 clear impacts of disease in the economic term.
Firstly, decrease production in many kinds of goods and services result from loss working days.
Secondly, smaller amout of government revenues
Following by direct impact on all citizens, those are higher cost of health care services, higher cost of social services, changing in lifestyle and smaller amount of government revenues
I think that people rarely talk about the economic effects of disease because they think is far from themselves or it doesn’t impact to themselves such as the corona virus in Thailand, the people think we should be lock down our country, they think this security make our country safe from covid19. However, the first business that effect from this security is hotel, tourism, restaurant and department store. There are many people who got fired, so the people don’t have money and can’t to buy anything.
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