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Coronavirus Will Upend the 'Profits Over People' Mantra of Globalisation -Maitreesh Ghatak

-TheWire.in

Our relentless pursuit of economic growth poses serious risks not just to the environment but also to public health.

The COVID-19 pandemic is first and foremost a public health crisis, but it brings along with it an economic crisis that is no less devastating. The public health crisis and the economic crisis are closely interrelated, especially in a country like India. India’s healthcare system lacks the resources to withstand the potential pressure posed by a population the size of India’s if the contagion spreads widely.

At the same time, higher population density and incidence of poverty make social-distancing and enforcing lockdown difficult, raising the risk of contagion and a potential collapse of the healthcare system. At the individual level, poverty and the disease will tend to reinforce each other through a depressingly familiar vicious cycle: the poor are more exposed to the health risk because their living conditions and economic vulnerability lessen their ability to self-isolate and to access or afford treatment if they fall ill.

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