We are still in the foothills of the Covid-19 crisis but it is clear this major global event will have deep implication for our society structure and economy….
Coronavirus pandemic has been the most traumatic experience of our lives. It will have a huge impact on us as individuals, as society and as a workforce. Although it’s hard to imagine right now, things will get to normal. Way of living and working has changed throughout the lockdown and will continue till it ends.
Five years later, corona virus or as we say covid-19, has brought the world to it’s knees. Businesses have been shut, schools and colleges are closed, travel banned.
Firstly, Covid has given a huge lift to E-learning. Educational institutions, business organizations have taken online education to a new level by offering classes and courses in an innovative way to keep their audience hooked at these times of lockdown. Students are signing up for online classes for entrance exams- JEE and NEET for upskilling. Several schools across the country have started online classes, students are attending classes virtually. Also, Television and radio are used for those without androids. Various organizations are conducting awareness for covid through online quizzes. Everything is converting to tech based structure.
Secondly, Work from Home, people are getting used to WFH culture. Many professional are now working from home. IT sectors, businesses are opting to work in home isolation. Even after lockdown relaxations, people are preferring to work form home due to the risk of infection in offices. Conferences and meetings are done by zoom and online work is prevailing. The uncertainty of end of corona leading to work from home. The culture has seeped into our living rooms with people especially, women, juggling between cooking, parenting and working at the same time. According to Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, WFH will become a norm in the post Covid world. Sanitizing things before use, social distancing, wearing mask in public is likely to continue as people have recognized the need to stay healthy more so, with no vaccine on covid in sight for a long time to come.
Thirdly, We have become more Hygiene conscious . People have started taking hygiene more seriously. Washing hands, using sanitizer , started as a compulsion is becoming a habit. Many NGO’S are creating awareness among the rural people to practice personal hygiene to lower the risk of getting infected. Health and hygiene brands have risen to the occasion and started campaigns for cleanliness. Demands of sanitizer has increased tremendously in urban cities. Sanitization is carried over houses, roads and public places. Sanitization tunnel are taking place to enter any area.
Fourthly, Social distancing changed the public places. Market complexes, railway station, shops, bus stands are changing and creating space for maintaining social distancing due to corona virus. Waiting in queues, a meter apart is seen all over the cities. Workplaces, schools, colleges will change to ensure distance. Public functions, marriages are observed with a new pattern with masks on faces of bride and groom. Small children playing in parks with masks.
As said, Necessity is the mother of Invention. A first look at these changes reveals that people from all the walks of life have imbibed the alterations. With a vaccine still months away and with the unconfirmed spectre of corona looming, the question no longer seems to be, “when this will end?” Instead some are started to say that the impact of such a pandemic, one that is truly global and may not be brought under control next year, could enormously alter how our societies are structured.
Meanwhile, we all have to understand that the current situation is like a tunnel and we don’t know how long the tunnel is, so better we should utilize the time for productive work and stay connected through each other with technology.
International Journal of Research (IJR) 