[WSMDiscuss] Pandemics- The History and the Lessons We Refuse to Learn

Sat Jun 27 21:03:01 CEST 2020

Dear Friends

Greetings! Pandemicshas a long history and it seems the world refuses to learn its lessons. And inthe longer run due to this unwillingness to learn any lesson, the historyrepeats itself in so many similar and also dissimilar ways. 

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Stigmatizationand prejudice during the COVID-19 pandemic

Katherine JRoberto, Andrew F Johnson and Beth M Rauhaus, Administrative Theory andPractice, Published Online on June 25, 2020  

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10841806.2020.1782128

In the months sincethe coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has overwhelmed the world, numerous popularpress articles have recounted cases of mistreatment toward others rooted intraits associated with the illness. These accounts are the latest repercussionof a long running “otherness” that Western society has attributed to Asianpeoples. This article draws on existing theory to better understand how socialstigmas and subsequently prejudice may present additional challenges as nationsgrapple with restrictions on individuals’ movement and move to more normalsocial interaction. A discussion of COVID-19 in the context of stigmatization,social identity, and social cognition theories offer a means to betterunderstand how those impacted and stereotyped by the virus may also experiencenegative treatment by others. 

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Pandemics,Propaganda & Polarisation 

Atulkrishna Biswas, Opinion, MadrasCourier, June 09, 2020 

https://madrascourier.com/insight/pandemics-propaganda-polarisation/

As plague killed 10 million people,self styled leaders took advantage of the situation & climbed the politicalladder. 

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India'sTumultuous History of Epidemics, Religion and Public Health Policy

Kiran Kumbhar, Opinion, The Wire, April 08, 2020 

https://thewire.in/health/india-epidemics-religion-public-health-policy

In the 19th century, fierce opposition from Indians toepidemic control measures forced British officials to reach out to communityleaders for help. This could help India tackle the COVID-19 pandemic. 

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Pandemics and theShape of Human History

Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, March 30, 2020 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/pandemics-and-the-shape-of-human-history

Outbreaks have sparked riots and propelled public-health innovations,prefigured revolutions and redrawn maps.

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Coronavirus:What India can learn from the deadly 1918 flu

Soutik Biswas, BBC India Correspondent, March 18, 2020 

What India can learn from 1918 flu to fight Covid-19

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What India can learn from 1918 flu to fight Covid-19

The Spanish flu that struck India a century ago has striking similarities with the coronavirus outbreak.
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Theinfluenza killed between 17 and 18 million Indians, more than all thecasualties in World War One. India bore a considerable burden of death - itlost 6% of its people. More women - relatively undernourished, cooped up in unhygienicand ill-ventilated dwellings, and nursing the sick - died than men. Thepandemic is believed to have infected a third of the world's population andclaimed between 50 and 100 million lives. 

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WithRegards 

Umakant,Ph. D 

NewDelhi 

My final words of advice to you are educate, agitate and organize; have faith in yourself. With justice on our side I do not see how we can lose our battle. The battle to me is a matter of joy. The battle is in the fullest sense spiritual. There is nothing material or social in it. For ours is a battle not for wealth or for power. It is battle for freedom. It is the battle of reclamation of human personality. 
B.R.Ambedkar
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