The terminologies in corona management: the mass circulated 'quarantine and social distance' (8)
The terminologies in corona management: the mass circulated 'quarantine and social distance'
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Author:
Dr. Md. Jafar Ullah
Professor
Department of Agronomy
Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Email: jafarullahsau@gmail.com
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Well, let me say that we had some words in our life which were almost legendary, one example I can cite nowadays such as ‘Narail Express’ and; nobody will disagree that he or she does not have any idea about this word. In our boyhood, we used to learn some new words as well, such as Nylon, polyester, etc. We knew these new words because we would be very pleased if we had new dresses made of these clothes, although these clothes are no longer in use the current days.
When the ‘corona’ was on its reign worldwide in full swing (still it is), the government of the corona-victim countries took necessary managements to fight it with. Social and mass media have been circulating updated status and suggesting its readers/viewers about how to cope it with. These media have been doing it inviting and consulting to the scholars, physicians and researchers related to it. The politicians are having roles to protect their people. The social activists are busy to prevent its spread and serving the society and corona suspects. Mass media and government servants have been working to limit corona’s spread.
People have been already familiar with some terminologies such as quarantine, isolation, stay at home, hand washing, hand rinsing, sanitizer, social distance, mask, gloves, PPE, corona testing kits, ventilators, N-95 respiratory mask, PCR machine (polymerase chain reaction) (RT-PCR) etc. Those were not known to them earlier.
Some of these terminologies have been very familiar to and being followed by the citizens due to mass campaigning especially by some of the living legends. One picture of India has been viral in the social media that the Chief Minister of the West Bengal was teaching people how to maintain the ‘social distance’ while shopping.
Doctors advised to impose quarantine to any suspect/victim either at his/her own place (home quarantine), or in institutions (Institutional quarantine) under the disposal of the government. In any location where such suspects were traced, the local administration declared that house or locality under ‘quarantined’ or ‘locked downed’. The terminologies such as locked down, quarantine, social distance, pandemic, isolation etc. have been familiar to the common people although these terminologies were seldom heard in the past.
In some places, the suspect persons spontaneously went on ‘self-quarantine’ hanging out a red flag in front of his house with a notice advising people not to enter that home. In West Bengal of India, some persons underwent self-quarantine on the branches of a tree (quarantine on tree) and that news has also been viral in the social media.
But one thing I felt that, most of the sick persons were aware of being quarantined and after having been doubtful suffering from flue or flue-like symptoms or like that, they communicated or tried to have contact on hotline mobile numbers to the IEDCR (Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research) so that they could reach IEDCR’s help for advice or treatment.
People in the facebook suggested their own opinions to make awareness in the people, or prevent corona from spreading, or being cured from corona in case of infection. However, some of them have been advising from their fake IDs of the FB on their own with a bad motive, which we call as ‘rumour’. Some people were giving posts to entertain his or her Facebook (FB) friends posting pictures humouring the situation or expressing memories of the past with their friends or campus. Some of the FB people exhibited what they did or have been doing at stay @ home.
(To be continued)
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