Strict Government Regulations for COVID-19 Lead to a Positive Result for the Cit
Strict Government Regulations for COVID-19 Lead to a Positive Result for the Citizens
Danny Tennyson
Personal Statement
I am a student in the Open Doors High School Program working towards my AAS-T in health Sciences. I am thinking about going into public health afterwards, which is where my idea for the topic of this paper came from. With COVID-19 at its peak and plenty of high-emotion debates surrounding the regulations that governments have enforced, I thought there was no better subject to write about.
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a disaster that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the United States, and the government does not know how to handle it. This paper will look into why the government should be imposing strict regulations by looking at the people who are affected. Looking at multiple statistics, studies, and papers written by experts that address the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the health of the people and the health of the economy, the conclusion can be drawn that when strict regulations are put into place, the net impact on the citizens is positive and these regulations should be put into place all over the country.
Keywords: COVID-19, regulations, government regulations, economy, pandemic
Strict Government Regulations for COVID-19 Lead to a Positive Result for the Citizens
The global pandemic caused by COVID-19 has created a large-scale debate in the United States surrounding the strictness of the government’s regulations. Some argue that strict regulations are an attack on personal freedom and the American economy while the other side wants to slow the spread of the virus and save thousands of lives. In states where strict regulations have been put into place, there has been a positive impact on the citizens. Whether it comes nationally or state by state, America needs to impose strict regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and protect the health of its people despite the potential negative effects they may bring.
COVID-19 Negative Health Effects
COVID-19 is a major threat to the health of humans. The virus started out in China and grew into an epidemic all the way into a pandemic while killing an unimaginable amount of people and negatively affecting even more. COVID-19 is not something to be taken lightly; as of early December 2020, according to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 dashboard, there has been a little over 1.5 million deaths worldwide. That goes along with over 67 million total cases. In the United States alone there has been almost 15 million cases and rapidly approaching 300,000 deaths. Some people believe that these deaths are exaggerated because people who die from the disease may already have underlying conditions that would have killed them anyway, but there is a statistic called excess deaths that can prove that the virus is killing an amount of people that is well above what it should be. The CDC (2020) defines excess deaths as “number of persons who have died fro