The Post COVID-19 World: Efforts Needed to Build Back a More Resilient Society

Abstract

The first half of the year 2020 will be well remembered and recollected by historians, researchers, thinkers over the years for the disruption caused the world over by the corona virus pandemic. The largest economies of the world were on lockdown to contain the virus. It pitted the whole of humanity against the virus. There has been severe irretraceable damage to economic and human health, wealth and prosperity. These histories of pandemics that have amputated nations over the years have also seen different measures that have been taken up to arrest the spread of the pandemics. Some of these measures are isolation, quarantine, confinement and more significantly nationwide or region wise lockdown. These measures have a severe impact on the social, political and economic facets of the nation/nations. Post COVID-19 there will be a lot of lessons to learn and pick up from and the impact this virus and measures are taken to contain its spread has had on the nation. This paper is intended to look at living communities and some important dimensions that we believe need attention to create a minimally disruptive ecosystem to sustain such pandemics in the near future.