I can’t imagine the situation when nationwide lock-downs are being imposed and we’re not having internet at home. I never gave such importance to the internet before, but after this pandemic it is becoming an essential thing for living life. The search box remained the same but now people are looking for recipes and safety steps.
This virus has made us live a life without restaurants and cinema halls, where we can survive. Video calls to family and friends become new weapon to overcome anxiety. In this context, there is much more we can talk about, so I mentioned everything else in the post.
Let’s think about how technology has helped us handle pandemic better.
Health Care
Apps such as Arogyasetu (in India) helped people understand the disease better. Tracking the number of people infected with these applications becomes simple. For a variety of cases around you, you get informed so that you can take precautions. In fact countries like France also had doctors on video conferencing available for mild symptoms, during peek COVID infection graph.
Schools Online
My son’s school teacher told me a few days ago (February 2020) that I should check out his screen time. I agreed with her thoughts. Lock down occurred in due to COVID-19 after a month. I got a mail from school that now the classes will be online, the situation has changed completely. Now it was difficult for me to opt for classes because of screen time and obviously lack of concentration as they are in their house not in class. But I agreed as due to this teachers were able to get their salaries. I took it as a small help from my side.
Different people revealed their talent
People introduced their talent to entertain the world and earn some money online with the aid of different applications. The best example is YouTube. After this lock down, viewers of this application were tremendously increased. The list includes Instagram , Facebook and Tik-Tok, too.
Many stuck teachers have used their talent for online teaching.
Some small schools that weren’t well prepared for online class setup couldn’t afford for their teachers. Such professional teachers took support from different online teaching apps during these challenging times. By registering on various online teaching platforms they started giving tuition online. For teachers and students this has been helpful.
Online supermarkets helped people deal with food crises
Local stores began to take orders through audio and video calls when online grocery delivery was closed to maintain complete lock down.
Work From Home
Most workers were switched to online calls and provided zoom meetings. Most jobs turned to work from home to keep social distancing. Meetings face to face are calls to zoom in and office desk is laptop only.
Entertainment Sector
While all shootings had been cancelled but the material was available with the aid of applications from each media outlet. As I said the viewers grew, so the most liked was the old content. In India for example , people watched “Ramayan” (1987 television series) not only this, many more old series broadcast for entertainment during this time.
Whole world is dealing with tough times, the economic graph will take years to handle. Still, we need to think something positive. There are at least a few people who have managed to save their jobs, and have helped the economy of their country.
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If you need some ideas about what else you can do in this situation to earn some money you must read
https://www.widevisions.in/2020/03/29/9-recession-safe-jobs/
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