As Corona cases, hospitalisations and deaths surge in [Germany] and beyond its time for ‘Lockdown Learning 101’

A crowd-sourced co-production fling

Using the lockdown time to get better at protecting yourself, loved ones, businesses and communities?

TWO QUESTIONS

What are YOU doing?

What do you want

others to do?

A space to share, test, promote and amplify ideas

Introduction .

We all know that while lockdowns are needed at moment that they ‘suck’ for many reasons:  

• Students are falling badly behind in their education
• Businesses suffer
• Lockdown hysteria grows
• Wellbeing and health are challenged
• Survival resources are inequitably distributed
• Violations are hard to track
• Domestic violence increases
• People die alone
• Potential learning time is wasted

So the challenge here is identifying and actioning behaviours and interventions that could make lockdowns history.

‘Don’t screw it up’ Appeal from colleague in France

Please, please, please, the first lockdown didn’t work, and we all know why! And we all know we are heading for another lockdown! (and YES, nobody wants to admit that yet) Let’s not screw up this time around. Going forward from this point, if we do not all work as one, protecting ourselves and at the same time protecting everyone we have to come into closer contact with, the virus will run rings round us yet again.

What are you doing ?

1. Keep schools and Universities open by arranging information and workshop sessions to schools and Universities’ to teach and engage young people on how they can protect themselves and their families from COVID19; challenging them to come up with creative solutions and ask for help to implement them ;
2. Creating a video COVID-19 health literacy library …
3. __________
4. __________
5. __________
6. __________

What do you want others to do ?

1. Schools-  adjust and build temporary installations to protect e teachers from getting infected……..
2. Keeping businesses open- extend shops opening hours, and use of rotational workers in 4-hour slots up to 16 hours opening in total……..
3. Masks- make high quality (N95 masks/ N95 FPP3 filters) accessible to all- give everyone for example two free textile masks with a pocket to the N95 filter
4. ___________
5. ___________
6. ___________

In the end, human nature doesn’t like to be told, what to do or not to do.

Engaging people to become part of the solution, is not only about participation but also empowering them. We need people to want to protect themselves and others out of their free will. COVID19 action abstainers and deniers are a threat to themselves and everyone’s health and safety.

By Tuuli Sauren

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World Health Communication Associates (WHCA) & INSPIRIT Creatives UG NGO,
MediaWise and MediaFocusUK

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