Covid19 pandemic made us realize how much hygienic practices are important in our life. Due to this realization, all the people are taking care of their diet and precaution. Research shows maximum number of people have health insurance now. If we compare this number with pre-covid period, we come to know how much of a positive impact was made by covid19 pandemic in terms of health insurance awareness.
The covid19 pandemic situation in India in 2023 is not worst than that of the year 2021 (the second wave). Almost all people have suffered from Covid directly and indirectly. Due to this situation, Herd immunity created among the people.
Indian people have unique characteristics which make them different than other developed countries. Following are the factors which contribute to making Indian people more immune.
Food consumption pattern from breakfast to dinner
Indian people mostly eat spicy foods and vegetarian foods. One of the important and foremost factors that make Indian people more strong is unhygienic food consumption. It is not good from the perspective of science. Practically it is true that such food makes them more immune.
Water drink
100% Filtered water makes people more sensitive and increases the possibility of sufferings form unhygienic food. But in the case of partially filtered water, the human body increases the immune system naturally which avoids any disease when unhygienic food is consumed.
Lifestyle pattern
The lifestyle pattern of Indian people has been changing for many decades. After covid pandemic, the lifestyle pattern is changing towards some improvements. Due to this change, people are more aware of the precautionary measures. For example use of masks in public places, the use of sanitizer, and the like many hygienic practices implemented.
Recent observation shows that the educated people are trying to improve their lifestyle. For example, some people who was taking food without any awareness about health but now they are aware of what and how much food they should take. That is why gradually people are interested and moving towards a healthy diet plan.
Inclusion of medicinal food items in daily routine
Indian people mostly eat spicy foods and vegetarian foods. Some foods have medicinal properties such as ginger, garlic, and turmeric. Onion, turmeric, ginger, garlic, and the like many spices are having medicinal properties according to Ayurveda. Indirectly these food make Indian people healthy
Physical work
Middle-class and lower-middle-class people of India have to take more effort to complete most of their work daily. For example, traveling in Mumbai locally. Physical work of farmers, workers, and the like many people. These people are 75 percent of the total population which makes India fitter indirectly.
Psychology
If we observe the pandemic period and lockdown situation we come to know that maximum people avoided implementing precautionary measures. This was due to their psychology or mentality towards covid19 disease. Maximum people had not considered Covid19 as a major disease. Only urban people were aware and implementing the precautionary measures for Covid19 pandemic.
Sometimes, Fear or anxiety can be responsible for the suffering of any disease. Rural people have no anxiety and fear about any disease due to which they are fit mentally.
Some areas of society are influenced positively due to Covid19 pandemic. Following are some major changes or improvements done in various areas due to the pandemic situation.
Improvements in Healthcare services
After many decades India faced a pandemic situation. There is a good impact due to the pandemic. Indian heal-care services was not sufficient to face such a situation due to which Lockdown was the only option. During the lockdown period healthcare services improved to tackle the situation.
Now Indian healthcare facilities are more than sufficient which was not in pre-Covid period. The situation made us more aware and capable to serve the people. Developed countries are providing for many decades. The most populated country like India and that too underdeveloped faced and tackled the situations.
Not only in healthcare but also there is a positive impact in other areas of the economy such as manufacturing. India was importing many health-related products which started manufacturing in India now. This initiative had taken due to the pandemic situation. We were not having any option without manufacturing ourselves.
Example: Improved healthcare services at Shankarrao Chavan Government Hospital, Nanded
E-learning
The Pandemic justified the potential of e-learning. Many universities had faced the challenges of conducting classes and examinations during the Covid19 Pandemic.
Online platforms had a valuable contribution to executing our education system during covid19 pandemic. It has justified that online education become a significant factor to execute the education system excellently.
Some of the skills adopted due to the pandemic are
- Teaching using different platforms (Zoom, Google meet etc.)
- Examination using different platforms (Google Forms with proctored features)
- Courses conducted online
- Online workshops
- Online faculty development programs
E-commerce
The Pandemic has justified another important way of doing business. E-commerce become an effective way of running a business effectively. As the govt. allowed to run an e-commerce business during pandemic, e-commerce not affected more as much as others.
Flipkart and Amazon was the largest player across the globe which were selling their products during the pandemic period.
Increase in Digital Transactions
The use of digital transactions have boosted by the pandemic situation. It is a positive influence made on people. People realized the importance of digital transactions during the pandemic. People who had not made digital transactions or those who were not in favor of digital transaction changed their perception due to the experience they had during the pandemic.
Established new start-ups
Start-ups always contributed to solving any problems or need of society by offering services or products with innovations. Manufacturing or production of many products has started in India during Covid19 pandemic just due to unavailability. Those products which had imported from other countries were not available in sufficient quantity during covid19 pandemic. This problem and necessity influenced our entrepreneurs to implement innovation and it leads to the start of manufacturing of those products in our country.