Past and present pandemic has devastated the economy and changed the lifestyle for people globally but understanding the living conditions, the livelihood of people, and the continuation of complying is a continuous strain in society today. Since March 2020, COVID-19 stormed the lives of billions of people worldwide and turn normalcy into abnormalcy. Normalcy now is wearing masks, maintaining social distancing, and washing hands. There has been a list of epidemics and pandemics worldwide which led to deaths.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provided guidelines, recommendations, and updated information to accommodate our health and welfare. COVID-19 played a significant role in our day-to-day living. The history of pandemics that occurred worldwide and the number of deaths during the time of pandemics was overwhelming and has crippled our economy.
Our economy is still recovering from COVID-19 which mirrors the Spanish Flu which accounted for 40-50 million deaths vice COVID-19 6.6 million. In today’s society, the aftermath of COVID-19 resulted in hardship, inflation, unemployment, depression, and anxiety which are signs of economic fallout. There are different ways to discuss COVID-19 and the economy. An example is in a proposed dissertation topic at Grand Canyon University, the Health Belief Model between sociological and psychological risk factors of residents in Washington State for being non-compliant in wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the proposed dissertation topic, the two variables are sociological and psychological risk factors and the overall discussion would be people being non-compliant in wearing masks during the pandemic which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended and provided guidelines for. The proposed dissertation topic is a quantitative study rather than a qualitative one. Quantitative vs Qualitative are two different forms of methodology when conducting research. What are your thoughts on people being non-compliant vice compliant when wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic? If you ask different people, you will receive different answers. However, what triggers people to be non-compliant? Is it a sociological or psychological risk factor or both?
If anything was taught from previous pandemics, leadership decision-making will be required to reconstruct economies worldwide. The effects of past and present pandemics left economies in devastation worldwide and only with time and effort will the normalcy we once knew will become the reality we all knew but at what cost?
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