Shona Hyun Park - Jeju
It has almost been a year since the COVID-19 inflated worldwide. Let’s face it, it is the reality that we are stuck in for an unprecedented time, and yet it’s hard to grasp that this became our reality. Whether we like it or not, now it is our reality. And the more impressive part is
that we, human beings are incredibly remarkable and complex, which have allowed us to adjust and adapt so well in such a short amount of time. Covid-19 has torn us apart from our normal lives and changed so many things in a matter of weeks. The things that we have taken for granted were soon re-defined as something so valuable to our daily lives. Therefore, in an effort to get away from this appalling new life where human contact is forbidden we humans made it all possible, making noncontact into an absolute, utterly completed contact, a united world all fighting together to survive against Covid-19.
The very first thing that people had to get used to was a contactless society. To be contactless physically, but connected, we find ourselves interacting more by using various technologies after the Covid-19 pandemic. The virus has changed the lifestyle of the entire
society. In school, online lessons were the biggest part that students had to adapt to, and it is a fact that it was a definite huge change for all students, teachers and parents. However, let’s go deeper into how the government and entire communities had to adapt to these harsh conditions, maintaining the global perspective at the same time. Well, there wasn’t very much choice for nations, other than to cooperate and sustain their global perspective. Since the first priority in this pandemic is to ensure everyone’s safety, we had to create base standards that can be followed by all the nations to minimize the spread of Covid-19.
To take actual action, it is vital for the leaders of both government and industries to workbehaviours together to devise a strategy in order to provide guidance, devise protocols, and protect people, today as well as in the aftermath of the crisis. Furthermore, as the nations are significantly influencing each other without borders, they are weighted by international
responsibility. The quickest solution is to support each other with what each country is lacking such as supplies and technology in developing countries, which made international cooperation paramount for the resolution of this pandemic.
For the globe to cooperate, they needed to interact with others for achieving the same aim that they all took forward, the fastest recovery from the pandemic. At this point, technology comes in.
So far 2020 is reckoned as a digital initiative with an immense uprising in digital technologies. It plays a prominent role in shaping up and regulating the behaviors, performances, standards of societies, communities, organizations, and individuals. Contact-free interactions were desperately needed as Covid-19 struck hard. All worldwide nations, communities in society, and individuals started to seek ways to communicate with each other. Rapid digital transformation has enabled us to respond without delay during the pandemic. Covid-19 has turned digitization from a “pleasant to have” to a “must-have” for
many organizations, forcing them to adapt and modernize quickly in order to keep their operations running.
One main example of this is school. Education was to be continued, and therefore, digitalization overtook the whole system such as thousands of students’ usage of zoom calls,
skype, and google classroom. Now, these days, we are already too familiar with this whole new system. We don’t feel weird to open up our laptops for registration, and video calling teachers instead of seeing them face to face.
We are so grown used to it already, and one of the biggest things that we will carry from this
pandemic is the rapid growth of digitalization that is produced due to the desperate and
necessary needs.
Looking back at the past few months, it has definitely been abnormal, but this kind of daily life has become a “new normal” that we just have to get used to, and now what we got used to. It is surprisingly magnificent that we were all able to maintain our daily life in the
hardest time. And this hard time has changed our daily life into contact to non-contact also with the global perspectives which is an impressive development.
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