Reasons of Apathy to Pandemic Instructions: Scenario in Bangladesh

International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) | Volume V, Issue VI, June 2021 | ISSN 2454–6186

Reasons of Apathy to Pandemic Instructions: Scenario in Bangladesh

Md. Easin Ahmed
Khulna University, Bangladesh

Abstract
Covid-19 has caused much suffering to the world. No nation could get an exemption from this contagion. To reduce impairments, people had to follow instructions given by doctors, health organizations, and governments. This research affirmed massive amount of people had always been apathetic to the given pandemic instructions and their health. This paper’s purpose is to let disaffiliates know why many people are neglecting their life risk within this pandemic. It also may help to take some essential steps to reduce infection and death cases. Applying a total of 10 focus group discussions in May and June of 2020 to almost 80 random participants from roadsides and tea stalls, this paper upholds some basic narratives that demonstrate the scenario of the pandemic in Khulna, Bangladesh. Lacking proper knowledge, Frustration, Financial condition, Communication barriers, and many more reasons are liable for this kind of behavior. The media also played a very significant role. All these suggest that there are some obvious reasons for them to disregard the given instructions.

Keywords: Covid-19, Pandemic, Disobey, Apathy, Reasons, Instructions, Role of media

Introduction

As a volunteer, in between very tough pandemic situations, I had to go out regularly. From the beginning of covid-19 to till now, I have never experienced a single day where 100% of people obeyed preventing instructions. Even I got influenced in some cases by not wearing hand gloves and PPE. So, I started to discern them, talk to them, and realizing their solicitudes.
It has been noted (Dey et al, 2020) that Bangladesh has familiarized its very first laboratory tested confirmed Covid-19 patients on 8 March 2020, and it reported its first death case on 18 March 2020. Official update page corona.gov.bd of Bangladesh exhibited Covid-19 has caused 8,127 deaths and 535,139 corona cases within 3651,722 tests in Bangladesh within its ten months of epidemic. Familiar with nature, environment, and geography, neighboring countries like Srilanka, Myanmar, Bhutan have a better situation than Bangladesh. Srilanka has 316 deaths and 64,157 infected till January 2021. Myanmar has 140,145 cases and 3,131 deaths, and Bhutan has 859 cases with just a single death report (worldometer, 2020).

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