Covid

COVID-19 is a pandemic that has spread like wildfire over the past few months. The pandemic will effect many things as it continues as well as effect the future financially. The pandemic was tied to a city in China, Wuhan and it COVID-19 was declared by WHO as a global pandemic outbreak. At first news of Corona virus many people believed it wouldn't escalate so rapidly. I think that many Americans and other large countries didn't see it as a threat. I believe that people did not take news seriously and it caught up to people. However, there was fake news that was presented to watchers which was not good because people took that information and didn't really care. In the article about more developed countries helping less developed countries, I agree with that statement to an extent. I think that right now with America being the most rapidly affected country we need to focus on ourselves. We need to make it clear to people (especially younger people) that staying inside and washing your hands makes a huge difference. The government in China was very strict on their citizens and the amount of cases has dropped tremendously. In America people believe that they have freedom, which is true, but this idea that they can do whatever they want is growing the problem. We need to cooperate with the government in these situations instead of fighting back. Once we get this rapidly growing infection handled, I think that America can help underdeveloped countries.

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