Fear-Responses to Bat-Originating Coronavirus Pandemics with Respect to Quarantines Gauged in Relation to Postmodern Thought—Implications and Recommendations

Abstract

Fear-responses to bat-originating coronavirus pandemics with respect to quarantine imposition are gathered and interpreted from large datasets, identified and disseminated by media. Responses are effectively gauged using postmodern thought with a continuum ranging from people’s resilience to define their own perspectives to public views being socially conditioned from media persistence in maintaining fear. Public responses to the 2003 SARS pandemic generally presumed and supported resilience of citizens’ perspectives. In contrast, from late 2019 to mid-2022, public responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were media-determined, promoting fear. In this regard, reactions to the COVID-19 quarantines are contrasted to the hospital isolations of SARS. The primary source of the difference was the major polarizing influence by social media of the WHO policy makers’ pronouncements and of healthcare providers’ statements directing media spotlight in their guidance of public response to COVID-19 throughout the pandemic, unlike during SARS. An investigation of cognitive bias regarding the psychological and societal implications related to this migration from resilience to fear regarding public responses to novel bat-originating coronavirus pandemics elicits recommendations concerning future quarantine dictates. These recommendations are dependent on appropriate encouragement of hopeful resilience through evidence based practice with respect to one extreme of the postmodern thought continuum.

Formulating Strategies Based on Local Community’s Perceptions for Cave and Bat Ecotourism Development: A Case Study of Togenra Cave in Barru, South Sulawesi

“…A larger window for research gaps in the future is still widely opened in particular in assessing the impact of cave-bat ecotourism on the conservation of both cave and bats. Future in-depth research on challenges and risks posed in developing this type of tourism in relation with zoonotic transmission of diseases including Covid-19 by bats (Nash 2022;Sánchez et al 2022), were also required for further examination and will therefore generate strategies and mitigation for the tourism as well as to achieve conservation of bat species in the region.…”