Mr. Ethan's Dilemma

• Posted by Fatima Ahmed May 11, 2021

  • Price $5.00

  Mr. Ethan's Dilemma

  
  

   

  
  

  

  
  

  Mr. Ethan was a senior political leader in a village near the Dhaka District. He also used to be a professor of Dhaka University before his political career. He was highly respected in his village community as he did an outstanding job of taking care of his community.  So, everything was going well with him until the novel Coronavirus hit his village quite hard on March, 2021. Mr. Ethan's tight-knit village community was devastated with this pandemic. The situation was getting worse day by day!

  
  

  

  
  

  Mr. Ethan was getting worried about how to manage this situation in his village.  The virus was ravaging his community as well as all other districts of Bangladesh.  So, Mr. Ethan met with other senior government officials and they all decided to implement a country-wide lockdown for a month. He thought that with this lockdown, the virus may come under control and hopefully stop the spread. However, the lockdown backfired! Many people in his community became angry because lockdown completely shut down their economy. Many people in his village lost their jobs.  On one hand, the virus was killing people for which the lockdown was necessary. But on the other hand, lockdown was making it hard for people to feed their families as the economy was shut.  Mr. Ethan was in a dilemma. He was not sure which alternative to choose.  Will he keep the lockdown to stop the deadly virus from spearing or will he open shops and businesses to help the economy? Now, with a new festival at hand, and as a response from the pressures received from both the government and the consumers, Mr. Ethan and his political colleagues finally decided to open up businesses and shopping malls so the festival's shopping can continue. He asked his community to follow safety precautions while going out, but quickly found out that no one was following the safety rules at all. 

  
  

  

  
  

  Our main discussion in today's topic is very common problem around the world right now! 'If you were Mr. Ethan, then what would you do to stop the spread of the virus without impacting the economy?' So, in your answer,  focus on how you can achieve both:  1) Control the spread of the virus  2) No bad consequence or minimal impact on economy while you control the spread. Please write your answer within 185 words or less in the comment section below.  This is a common topic, so please submit your answer by May 13th or before. We will start a discussion, check everyone's solution and the person with the best, creative and practical solution will get $5. 

  
  

  All the best!

  
  

  --Project concept designed by Rubayaat Rabbee

  
  

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  The winner of this quiz project was Taarik Hasan and runner up was Khadeeza Afruz Shammee. Taarik won $5 and Khadeeza $3. Please check their answers below in the comment box. 

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