What have been the primary effects of COVID-19 on society? Essay
will be MARKED on your use of APA to format your document to apply proper in-text citations, and to include a proper Reference page for a separate 5%. Use 5 quotes total
Here are the sources you will need in the essay:
1. https://www(dot)who(dot)int/news/item/13-10-2020-impact-of-covid-19-on-people's-livelihoods-their-health-and-our-food-systems
2. https://doi-org(dot)gbcprx01(dot)georgebrown(dot)ca/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138882
3. https://www(dot)frontiersin(dot)org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.577684/full
1003 / Fall 2020 / Essay Assignment (15%); APA Documentation (5%)
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INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Write a 5-paragraph cause or effect essay (15%). Use essay structure as discussed in Weeks 3 and 4. Use up to 3 current and authoritative sources to support your points. The essay must be 600-800 words (2-3 pages), typed, double-spaced, and formatted in APA Style.
2. Use 3 sources and only 3 sources. Use the 2 sources you found for the Library Assignment and one additional source if you wish. NO MORE THAN THAT.
3. Cite sources with in-text citations and at the end with a Reference Page using APA (Weeks 2, 6 and 11 lecture). YOU will be MARKED on your use of APA to format your document to apply proper in-text citations, and to include a proper Reference page for a separate 5%. Use 5 quotes total (direct quotes or paraphrases) so you control the amount of quoting you do and not over-quote.
4. The essay is due by Week 12: Fri. Nov. 27.
Topics are the same as Writing Assignment 2. This means you can use the body paragraph you wrote for Writing Assignment 2 in your essay. Be sure to improve upon it.
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Primary Effects of COVID-19 on Society
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Primary Effects of COVID-19 on Society
Fear. Political Manipulation. Global Lockdowns. Mass interments. Harrowing Scenes of Disease, Death and Despair. This is not an end of days Hollywood movie. This is COVID-19. The outbreak of COVID-19 has introduced an unprecedented pause to the world's activities in almost about every endeavor possible: economy, social gatherings, schooling and work. The pace and scale of COVID-19 of damage is still, so far, unfolding and may never be calculable. Putting faces on numbers is just a desperate attempt to make memorable millions of lives lost, incalculable number of livelihoods ruined and dismiss current powerful and pervasive uncertainty. The current attempts to assess unfolding damages by COVID-19 are glimmers of hope to overcome and survive a pandemic still harvesting lives, jobs and communities. To put matters into more perspective, an overview, however incomplete, of COVID-19's impact is required. This short assignment aims, accordingly, to explore current and potential psychological, economical and environmental impact COVID-19 has or might have on society in order to characterize current state of damage and benefits, if any, of COVID-19.
Psychologically, current lockdowns at a global scale are already affecting well-being of millions. Fear, anxiety, panic attacks, stress and a sense of powerlessness are only a few conditions and effects of COVID-19. The sense of separation, constant fear of infection, and post-recovery depression are shown to impact millions negatively, psychologically speaking due to prolonged lockdowns (Li & Wang, 2020; Cao et al., 2020, as cited in Saladino, Algeri & Auriemma, 2020). For instance, “college students [in China] are more likely experiencing stress, anxiety, and depression than others during the pandemic.” Moreover, healthcare workers are widely reported to experience secondary traumatic stress disorder, “feeling of discomfort
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experienced in the helping relationship when treatments are not available for all patients and the professional must select who can access them and who cannot” (Zaffina et al., 2014; Roden-Foreman et al., 2017; Rana et al., 2020, as cited in Saladino, Algeri & Auriemma). This is a hard choice a good many healthcare providers had to make recently, particularly in highly infected areas. In sum,the impact of COVID-19 cuts across the healthcare provision spectrum.
Economically, economic growth, once in double digits, is now below zero almost globally. Consequently, millions are expected to ...