Lessons Learned

As a part of the Milestone 1 Assessment for Studio 2, you are to draft a blog post in which you assess one of the nine lessons learned from the Yellow Fever Epidemic and how it was or was not applied to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please post your final draft of this short essay response in the comments for this post. Don’t forget to turn in the original task in your Task Dashboard to ensure that you earn all possible credit for this task.

Comments (6)

Isaiyah Hall (Student 2025)
Isaiyah Hall

When covid-19 first came many people still were shaking hands. The importance of this topic is to inform people on why the virus was continuing to spread. It is important for a change to stop the spread of viruses and diseases so fast. Hands are warm, they’re wet, and we know that they transmit disease very well. People should try to avoid this form of greeting because if someone is sick shaking hands is the easiest way to transmit a virus or disease. Handshakes are just one form of touch that has evaporated since the coronavirus outbreak. So have all of the other close contact gestures that make us stand closer than 6 feet.

Experts are betting that some degree of social touch will disappear permanently, even after the pandemic ends. “I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci in an April interview with the Wall Street Journal podcast. If handshakes were to go away permanently along with all other close contact gestures even after the pandemic ends, Then social interaction is going to start getting extremely weird.

My lesson is an example of change and continuity because people still greet each other with close contact gestures and then wonder why they get sick so easily.

Elijah Rodriguez (Student 2025)
Elijah Rodriguez

When covid-19 came around many people still were shaking hands. The importance of this topic is to inform people on why the virus was continuing to spread. It is important for a change to stop the spread of viruses and diseases so fast.

Hands are warm, they’re wet, and we know that they transmit disease very well. People should try to avoid this form of greeting because if someone is sick shaking hands is the easiest way to transmit a virus or disease. Handshakes are just one form of touch that has evaporated since the coronavirus outbreak. So have all of the other close contact gestures that make us stand closer than 6 feet.

Experts are betting that some degree of social touch will disappear permanently, even after the pandemic ends. “I don’t think we should ever shake hands ever again, to be honest with you,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci in an April interview with the Wall Street Journal podcast. If handshakes were to go away permanently along with all other close contact gestures even after the pandemic ends, Then social interaction is going to start getting extremely weird.

My lesson is an example of change and continuity because people still greet each other with close contact gestures and then wonder why they get sick so easily. If people were to do a little bit of research and tell others than not as many people will still shake hands or give hugs. Some people have stopped greeting people with a close contact gesture for the fact that there is an alternative way by just saying hello or hi.

Aiden Gonzalez (Student 2025)
Aiden Gonzalez

I think the United States learned their lesson with the yellow fever from how much we have learned our lesson with other fevers and how much we have been able to prevent the virus.

The U.S has learned a lot to keep people inside their homes and space people out to keep any type of sickness from spreading to the outside world and has been proven to prevent outbreaks by about 40% and keeps people safe.

Since Covid -19 has happened the U.S has announced that people are to stay inside and to keep your home clean and to stay distant from people and that to wear a mask incase that the virus traveled through the air and that staying inside is for sometime is more safe until the outbreak has settled down more.

We as a country has deftly changed alot since the yellow fever and have learned alot about virus and have learned a lot of new ways to treat the virus and to treat it or to cure it to prevent it from spreading any further than it does.

Isaac Horner (Student 2025)
Isaac Horner

Post your section of the article on the platform your teacher has designated. People stopped shaking hands in the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic which lead to less people getting i’ll with sicknesses like coronavirus but this had no effect on yellow fever as it was contracted through mosquitos.

The yellow fever disease was unaffected by the lack of shaking hands but coronavirus was slowed by this action

Samuel Raup (Teacher)
Samuel Raup

1 of the things the doctors have told people to do that applied to covid-19 was to quarantine yourself in your room so you don't spread the infection to other people and to confined yourself into your room with someone providing food to you. this paragraph is also a part of this essay.