Social Impacts of COVID-19: Predicting the Unpredictability

• Main Authors: Muhammad Ihsan Qadır, Saıf Malık, Aqeel Abbas Kazmi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Istanbul Gelisim University Press 2020-12-01
• Series: İstanbul Gelişim Üniversitesi Sağlık Bilimleri Dergisi
• Subjects: pandemi; veba; çevrimiçi iş; uzaktan eğitim; telesağlık; pandemic; plague; online business; distance learning; telehealth
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/igusabder/issue/58664/740470

This paper aims at making an inquiry into the ongoing societal effects of the COVID-19 focusing on futuristic dimensions in the post-COVID-19 scenario while taking stock of the expected social changes in the world in general and Pakistan in particular. The main thesis of the subject matter is that the cosmic outreach and destructive nature of this menace have introduced a few extraordinary changes in our social lives. Pandemics, since time immemorial have decimated millions of lives and spread grief, gloom and tribulation all around. The occurrence frequency of pandemics has been on the rise since the last century because of increased global integration, exponential growth in population, mass urbanization, increased mobility and excessive exploitation of the environment. Major pandemics endured by humanity are; plague, smallpox, flu or influenza, cholera, tuberculosis, Ebola and few others. All of these pandemics overwhelmed populations socially and economically, hence COVID-19 being accosted globally is hinting at the evolution of the new normal.