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Sawa News Agency · 2020-04-07
In a statement sent to Sawa in April 2020, Shaban predicts that the world cannot sustain for long the paralysis the coronavirus has imposed on its economy, politics, education, travel and culture. He lists the scale of the losses, warns that prolonged shutdowns threaten international relations and the stability of rich and poor countries alike and will bring unemployment, severe poverty and even famine, and says that in a reckoning of costs, returning to work while managing thousands of infections may cost far less than staying frozen: 'death from hunger, unemployment, poverty, theft and violence is far greater and costlier than death from the virus'. He expects that from early May the world will enter a phase of 'working with corona' under added precautions such as health checks for travellers, disinfection and distancing.
In a statement sent to Sawa in April 2020, Shaban predicts that the world cannot sustain for long the paralysis the coronavirus has imposed on its economy, politics, education, travel and culture. He lists the scale of the losses, warns that prolonged shutdowns threaten international relations and…
Omar Shaban, Director of PALTHINK for Strategic Studies, expected that the world would not be able to bear for long the paralysis that has struck life as a result of the spread of the coronavirus in most countries of the world, noting that he expects life to gradually return alongside the virus.
Shaban said, in a statement received by Sawa Agency today, Tuesday, that paralysis has struck the world in most of its organs (economy, politics, society, education, entertainment, culture, travel, tourism) as a result of the spread of the coronavirus pandemic.
He added that the coronavirus has caused enormous losses in industry, services, financial markets, energy inputs, and the transport sector, and has disrupted hundreds of millions of workers, millions of factories, airports, trains, and the manifestations of modern human life.
Shaban pointed out that what the world is experiencing threatens the system of international relations, destabilizes dozens of rich and poor countries alike, and tampers with the fate of massive economic and financial sectors.
He noted that many societies and countries will be hit by unemployment and severe poverty that will reach the level of famine, in addition to the spread of diseases and other epidemics, some old and some new, if the wheel of the economy in countries remains stalled.
The Director of PALTHINK explained that many countries will begin seriously thinking about overcoming the current situation and deciding to return to work gradually with additional precautionary measures, noting that in calculations of profit and loss, the cost of returning to work while dealing with thousands of infections may be far less than the cost of remaining in the current state of paralysis.
He emphasized, saying: "Death due to hunger, unemployment, poverty, theft, and violence is far greater and far more costly than death from the coronavirus."
Shaban expected that, with many countries succeeding in controlling the epidemic, curbing its spread, and overcoming the shock, the world would enter, at the beginning of May, the phase of "working with coronavirus," while taking additional precautions and measures such as health screening for travelers and luggage, sterilizing airplanes and airports, examining and sterilizing workers, employees, and customers before and during their entry, in addition to preventing overcrowding in public places and marking and expanding distancing spaces in restaurants, universities, schools, and other similar measures.
He concluded by saying: "The world is capable of devising ways and creating new methods to coexist with the epidemic until it is eradicated."
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