COVID 19
The United States has been ravaged by a health pandemic. COVID-19 has created a series of public policy problems that the country has not seen since the Great Depression and World War II. America is now facing not only a health care crisis but an economic crisis, a racial and income distribution crisis, and a political crisis that strains the very fabric of our democratic political system. As of June 2021. the pandemic has (1) claimed the lives of over 650,000 Americans and (2)caused the economy to shrink by an astounding 33 percent during the second quarter of the year (the sharpest decline in the country’s domestic gross product in American history), and an underestimated true rate of unemployment that is now listed at 10.2 percent. Underlying these data are the non-financial and employment opportunities that reinforce economic and social disparities along racial, ethnic, and gender lines.
Are our current economic, budgetary, health care, welfare, education, environmental, and criminal justice efforts made so far to solve the COVID-19 pandemic and the host of other ancillary issues adequate? If not, what public policies are needed to deal with these issues in tomorrow’s world? Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? The status quo is not sustainable. COVID-19 brought forth intractable problems in the American body politic?
Do you agree or disagree with the above statements? Why or why not?
