DOES THE ECONOMY HAVE TO BE REBUILDED OR REOPENED? (2nd part)

DOES THE ECONOMY HAVE TO BE REBUILDED OR REOPENED? (2nd part)

"The international community must redesign and rebalance its economies and societies after the Covid-19 pandemic, which" exposed global fragility "on issues that go well beyond health." (Engº António Guterres - Secretary-General of the United Nations)

In this regard, we do not know of any SOCIAL IMPACT STUDY of the multiple “subsidization” measures, approved by the government, both for people and for companies… .we are “lestos” to highlight the economic impacts, the financial impacts and even, for being in fashion, environmental impacts, but the predictions of social impacts that such policy measures entail do not exist! It should be noted that our references do not involve only and only the political actors, who in general “suffer” from a high “deficit” in technical preparation, but it does cause some strangeness, the non-involvement in these matters of the multiple technicians from the various areas which, perhaps, show some unpreparedness in transforming their strategic ideas and projects that they theoretically and regularly disseminate, but that would not resist the social framework that they intend to involve and, perhaps for this reason, avoid dwelling on such social impacts that should prevail over all the others. (economic, financial and environmental).
If we consider that financial resources are scarce, as well as environmental resources, perhaps it is time to make these resources compatible with the valorization of human knowledge and prioritize and frame the evaluation of policy measures with a prevalence of enhancing not only the value of knowledge, but also
the revaluation of professional knowledge of the human workforce qualified as “undifferentiated”.
We have no doubt that in a social state the dimension of social vulnerability is one of the components of society that will have to be subsidized by public economic resources, but it should always be made compatible with the assessment of the social return of these policy measures - that is, subsidization should have always in return for the provision of social services and / or the necessary revaluation of professional knowledge.
In reality in Portugal and in some other countries with some dimension in social policies, we are continually overwhelmed with massive information, with a lot of emphasis on the economy and finance, and sometimes on the environmental level, which are undoubtedly very important. However, we have to be able to think and discern the structural trends that mark the change and, perhaps because of that, we have to give more time and due attention, namely to the areas of social sciences, biology, epidemiology and health that are vital. to think about the complexity of the world and be able to identify and anticipate risks. "As tragic as the past few weeks have been, however difficult, frightening and uncertain, this moment represents an incredible opportunity for people to wake up and to work together for change." (Barack Obama, former US President)