Must there be a “war” against coronavirus?

Rohela, Pallavi; Bhan, Anant; Ravindranath, Divya; Bose, Devi Leena; Pathare, Soumitra

doi:10.20529/ijme.2020.070

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“…The 'outbreak of generosity' campaign by young people in Europe expresses it well, as a deliberate intention to communicate solidarity. This kindness has often been hidden by the physical isolation and distancing in COVID-19 and the use of war rhetoric in authoritarian responses that have often treated people as passive objects, or problems to control (Rohela et al, 2020). The case studies show that a compassionate society is not contradictory to and in fact enhances public health.…”

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Beyond command and control: A rapid review of meaningful community-engaged responses to COVID-19

Loewenson¹,

Colvin

Szabzon³

et al. 2021

Global Public Health

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Responses to COVID-19 have included top-down, command-and-control measures, laissez-faire approaches, and bottom-up, community-driven solidarity and support, reflecting long-standing contradictions around how people and populations are imagined in public health-as a 'problem' to be managed, as 'free agents' who make their own choices, or as a potential 'solution' to be engaged and empowered for comprehensive public health. In this rapid review, we examine community-engaged responses that move beyond risk communication and instead meaningfully integrate communities into decision-making and multi-sectoral action on various dimensions of the response to COVID-19. Based on a rapid, global review of 42 case studies of diverse forms of substantive community engagement in response to COVID-19, this paper identifies promising models of effective community-engaged responses and highlights the factors enabling or disabling these responses. The paper reflects on the ways in which these communityengaged responses contribute to comprehensive approaches and address social determinants and rights, within dynamics of relational power and inequality, and how they are sometimes able to take advantage of the ruptures and uncertainties of a new pandemic to refashion some of these dynamics.

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confidence: 99%

Beyond command and control: A rapid review of meaningful community-engaged responses to COVID-19

Loewenson¹,

Colvin

Szabzon³

et al. 2021

Global Public Health

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“…Although militaristic or war metaphors have prevailed in public discourse during the health and social crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, several papers examined the way media used the war metaphor (Connolly, 2020;Rajandran, 2020;Rohela et al, 2020;Alsaedi, 2021;Semino, 2021). In general, the findings are rather critical of the usage of war metaphor as predominantly negative and damaging.…”

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War and Apocalypse Metaphors in Media Discourse on the Pandemic and Earthquake in Croatia 2020/2021

Lacković

Šporčić

Baralić³

2021

Medijska istraž. (Online)

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The way we talk about complex and abstract ideas is abundant in metaphors. Many research studies have shown that even the most subtle metaphor can have a significant influence on the way people try to tackle various social problems. Thus, the assumption is that metaphors are not just a simple rhetorical tool, but also have a profound effect on how we conceptualize reality and respond to important social issues. In the last two decades, scientists have studied the impact of metaphorical framing on political discourse from different research perspectives. Metaphors are often used for framing political topics, and these metaphorical frames are considered to affect the way people regard these issues, perceive the world, and act, on both the individual and collective level. In accordance with these research studies, in this paper, we will regard the metaphor as a cognitive tool that classifies our conceptual system and enables the understanding of our experiences. The objective of this paper is to examine the use of conceptual metaphors in media discourse on the corona crisis and the earthquake crisis caused by the quake in Petrinja. The research was conducted in three steps, following the methodology of critical metaphor analysis (Charteris-Black, 2004). In the first step, the identification of metaphorical expressions was performed by using a big data corpus of articles published by Croatian web-portals from the beginning of the pandemic (from January 2020 to April 2021) and after the Petrinja earthquake (from 29 December 2020). In the second step, the dominant conceptual metaphors employed in communicating the two crises were interpreted. The results of this interpretation are that war metaphors are ubiquitous in reporting on the COVID-19 disease pandemic, and the apocalypse metaphor is used in reporting on the earthquake. In the third step of the analysis, the reasons and implications of the occurrence of these metaphors are explained.

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Underpinnings of Pandemic Communication in India: The Curious Case of COVID-19

Gavaravarapu

Vemula

2021

Communicating COVID-19

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concerted health communication strategy was put in place to allay the fears and to quell the circulation of misinformation as well as disinformation. The government even announced that any misinformation or disinformation about the vaccines or their administration would be viewed seriously under the National Disaster Management Act (Mandhani, 2021), with discussions about vaccine diplomacy featuring in the media with India exporting vaccines on a large scale to various countries around the world. Health communication in India has come full circle. Health communication practices, policies, and the wider advocacy measures of the government in communicating about health to the masses in critical times such as COVID-19 and other such epidemics at various times need to be linked.Since its onset, the COVID-19 pandemic posed a continuous and dynamic challenge to health communication in India. It has redefined the way pandemics are understood and managed, compelling restructuring of the health systems, addressing the shortcomings, and ensuring the last mile delivery of health facilities. COVID-19 demanded a diverse, comprehensive, and strategised health message delivery model. India had to improve its health systems and communication strategies in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The health communication strategies needed to be tailor-made in order to address the health needs, priorities, risk perceptions, and health-seeking behaviours of the people. The pandemic has also highlighted the significance of addressing the social determinants of health (SDH), which are essential factors that affect people's health and/or inequalities in health but lie outside the health sector (Abrams & Szefler, 2020). However, multiple discourses in the political, economic, and psychosocial domains have made the Indian experience of public health communication an interesting case study. This chapter aims to discuss some key facets of health communication during the pandemic in the Indian context. While attempting to understand the various perspectives of pandemics historically, an attempt is made to elucidate how the SDH defined the contours of public health communication. This chapter also explores the interlinkages of health communication strategies with various extraneous factors that influence SDH. Such determinants during a pandemic called for strategic shifts in economic policies

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Must there be a “war” against coronavirus?

Cited by 14 publications

References 6 publications

Beyond command and control: A rapid review of meaningful community-engaged responses to COVID-19

Beyond command and control: A rapid review of meaningful community-engaged responses to COVID-19

War and Apocalypse Metaphors in Media Discourse on the Pandemic and Earthquake in Croatia 2020/2021

Underpinnings of Pandemic Communication in India: The Curious Case of COVID-19

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