It seems the countries in the northern hemisphere is getting through the 1st wave of the pandemic with COVID19. However, the relationship between social distancing and reopening economy should go on in exquisite and unstable balance for the coming year or two.
In the historical perspective, this crisis might be basically due to the problem of financial capitalism. Based on neoliberal economy, financial capitalism seeks maximizing the profits of the stakeholders while developing natural environment outrageously for further profits. It has brought the exposure of zoonotic pathogens into human society. It has also deprived the workers of the right to participate in the governance of their firms. Labor has been commodified in the economy. The economic disparities has become evident between developed and developing countries and within a country under this system.
Three researchers of social science in Belgium, France and the US have planned to publish the following initiatives while they were in the midst of Corona crisis. Before they published it as an op-ed in Le Monde, there was a couple of weeks. During that period, they have seeked researchers who signed in the article with them. Eventually, 5000 researchers in social science and liberal arts from 700 universities all over the world have approved and signed the article. Translated into 27 languages, it has been published on 43 newspapers in 36 countries.
https://democratizingwork.org/read/?fbclid=IwAR1dF10gBPWJAlVYsDY83dpg5Vdz3tKqHFloPK-oA6Kah0Hl0_Wb7x95ogM#japanese
I am touched to know there are so many researchers considering the problem as depicted in the 2nd paragraph of this post. Without taking it as above, the crisis won't be overcome, I believe.
Their motto is a truth.
"It is time to democratize, decommodify work and remediate the environment."
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