Posted: November 15th, 2022

GREAT PANDEMIC PROJECT REFLECTION ESSAY

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YOUR 2022 GREAT PANDEMIC PROJECT REFLECTION ESSAY
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic of today is not the first one to shake the foundations of American society, or to challenge modern science. The Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 killed over 600,000 Americans, and between 3 and 5 percent of the entire world’s population. After you have viewed the two pandemic videos in the Great Pandemic Project eCampus kit, and in light of your personal experiences and your own historical efforts to understand the challenges of our current health crisis, your task is now to analyze the two events for similarities and differences in how the this nation’s population at large, its government, and public health agencies handled (or are presently handling the two pandemics, and address elements of civic and personal responsibility revealed to you by the history of these two crises. This essay is about your own personal analysis of the current pandemic in the light of the events of the 1918 one, and not simply relating the history of the two. The questions below will help you focus on elements of this. Personal research, critical thinking, and an essay will be the principal tool for this purpose. You should answer the following questions as you would any college-level academic writing endeavor you produce: with mature, thoughtful prose, correct spelling, and proper punctuation. When necessary, identify the particular pandemic by year. Here is an example of that style:
“The 1918 pandemic came from Mars, while the 2020 one originated in the Land of OZ. Both were spread by leprechauns.”
Let’s keep things simple on citations, and avoid their overuse, considering that we are using basically two primary sources for the 1918 pandemic, and in certain cases, you are being asked your personal opinion and observations based on today’s constantly-evolving situation. Citations can be handy, however, when you want to closely focus your analysis, so they have their place, and you can certainly deploy them if you have them. Since you are basing your 1918 historical data largely on two primary sources: the “American Experience” video, and Edna Boone’s interview video, you can shorthand any of the direct quotes or general citations you want to call up by using (AE) for the American Experience and (Boone) for Edna’s testimony. Let’s also keep any citations you might use within the text, rather than as footnotes. Here are some examples:
First of all, you can avoid the shorthand method altogether by simply incorporating them in the running text, such as:
“Edna Boone claimed that hospitals and doctors were only minutes away by helicopter” or “The American Experience stated that large urban hospitals were always half-full of Martians”
Or you can use the shorthand citation option thus:
“Small towns could be handicapped by lack of easy access to hospitals (Boone), but even in large cities, hospitals were often overwhelmed (AE).
Remember, I want you to come to the conclusions asked for in the 3 prompts below by utilizing the two primary 1918 source videos in the course’s eCampus Great Pandemic Project “kit,” and your own firsthand observations, research, and experiences of today’s COVID pandemic situation. Since we are slap in the middle of an out-of-control surge in the COVID crisis, and government agencies are in crisis as well, you should have plenty of grist for the mill for today’s pandemic. If by any chance you want to specifically call out a current pandemic guru (or deadbeat) or institution by name in your narrative, let’s shorthand it thus: person/institution in parenthesis. Again, you can either include it in the running text:
“Currently, the National Institute of Pseudoscientists and Quacks thinks the pandemic came from cosmic dust” or “Currently, cosmic dust is claimed to be the cause of the pandemic (the National Institute of Pseudoscientists and Quacks)
The required minimum length of your essay is 1200 words of 12-point, double-spaced text.
THE ESSAY QUESTIONS:
1). Both the 1918 and the 2020-2022 pandemics were caused by viruses. Even though they are a century apart, there are a number of basic characteristics of them that have presented remarkably similar challenges to medicine, to national, state, and local governments, and to individual citizens. Identify some of those common major medical, governmental, and social challenges. Then compare and contrast the responses that national, state, and local governments employed as they wrestled with combatting the 1918 and COVID-19 pandemics. Where are they alike? Where are they different? Where do you think they failed or succeeded? You might want to look on the Internet at studies of three cities: St. Louis, Philadelphia, and San Francisco, and see how they and their civic, medical, and media leaders did (or didn’t) handle the 1918 pandemic on behalf of their citizens, and then find specific instances of national, state and local governments today that demonstrate the same characteristics and the same good or bad leadership. You will not necessarily find all the answers to these in the 1918 videos, since they don’t cover the present, so be prepared to do some sleuthing around online. The Internet is awash with material on today’s ongoing struggle to contain our current pandemic, with reputable news feeds from CNN, MSNBC, and PBS and others, as well as the local network channels, and some authoritative sources like the New York Times, the Center for Disease Control (CDC), Dallas County’s Health and Human Services (DCHHS), and other agencies even have dedicated online Coronavirus briefing features you can avail yourself of in your quest for current material.
2). This question centers around the principles of “CIVIC RESPONSIBILITY” (exhibiting a sense of personal responsibility to improve the public good), and “CIVIC ENGAGEMENT” (Putting “Civic Responsibility in action by the act of promoting a positive quality of civic life in a community or nation). Looking back to 1918, and using the context of today’s pandemic, what lessons should we carry forward with regard to the duties of our public officials, as well as our own responsibilities as citizens, when faced with public health crises of this magnitude? Identify examples from both your own experiences with today’s pandemic, and the historical accounts of those faced by Americans in 1918, that illustrate challenging ethical decisions of social responsibility and personal responsibility that both governments and community leaders, as well as individual citizens must face in their efforts to live their daily in a society, and those that national, state, and county public health agencies face to uphold their duties to their citizens. Listen closely to Edna Boone, for instance, and how her small community in general, and her own family in particular, handled the pandemic and its challenges. What parallels do you see between their predicament and that of certain socioeconomic groups today, both rural AND urban? You might want to point out your assessment of the role—or lack of it—of government and public agencies in both pandemics as it relates to those two demographic groups. There’s been a great deal of discussion lately, for instance, about how “equity” relates to the way the pandemic is being addressed with regard to certain segments of today’s population, so when you listen to Edna talk about her small, rural community, and her family’s role in it throughout their pandemic, the does her experience relate to any equity issues today with regard to how public agencies are addressing (or not addressing) the current pandemic?

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