Digital weapon is the best .. How will the world change after the Corona crisis ?

Suddenly, half of the planet's population enters the quarries, and all public places are closed due to the emerging Corona virus, the borders are closed in March 2020, and people are forced to abandon their hobbies outside their homes.

 

 The modern world with all its power found itself in front of a hidden enemy, a microscopic virus that is not seen with the naked eye, and cannot be killed with bullets, ballistic missiles, or advanced MiG- or F-35 aircraft and other weapons that have turned into mere junk in front of Covid 19, which infected more than 45 million people around the world, According to worldometers  site .

And it has killed more than 1 million and 182 thousand people so far and needs special weapons to confront it.

 

There are many unconventional weapons that some countries used in their war on the virus, in the early days of pandemic, and these weapons that could be decisive in the future, including:

 

Weapon of will

Will was the first stage of confronting the virus, in terms of speed in making decisions, especially the closure decisions that some countries were late in, thus killing the virus tens of thousands in them, such as Italy, France, the United States, Britain and Brazil.

 

 Political will needs boldness even if this boldness is somewhat costly economically and politically, but saving people is the priority of priorities. Otherwise, all speeches are useless, so the speed in decision-making was crucial.

Weapon of Medicine and Scientific Research

The medical sector, which was marginalized by many countries at some point, including Morocco, given that it is not productive, has returned to question the future after Corona, as it is expected to allocate a budget worthy of it and scientific research, which could constitute a lifeline before the discovery of the vaccine  .

 The world's eyes today are directed to medcine  laboratories in China, Japan, South Korea, United States, Germany, France and other countries, which are locked in a race against the clock, while continuing The virus has spread since the first case was discovered in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December last year.

 Digital weapon

last pdate of coronavirus spread (worldmetres screenshot)

Digital weapons can be considered a most important  future weapons for several reasons, perhaps the most prominent of which is the high number of Internet users who have smart phones, meaning that a person has a weapon in his pocket, and the number of Moroccans who use the Internet out of 4 and a half billion of the planet's population who use them and reach 59 percent of them. It is 25 million Moroccans, up to 69% of them, including 18 million active users of social media, according to the latest report of We are Social, in partnership with Hootsuite, and this number is expected to rise after the Corona pandemic.

 

 

 

Morocco entered the face of Corona digitally through ’’ wiqaytna'' our prevention; app, which is an application that tracks the injured and how close they are to others, and it is similar to the many applications and devices that New Zealand, China, South Korea and Singapore were the first to design.

 

 

 

"In the past 20 years, we have had major threats - SARS, MERS, Ebola, bird flu and swine flu," Professor Matthew Bayless of the University of Liverpool told BBC News. "We escaped with five bullets, but the sixth hit us." In reference to Corona: “This is not the last pandemic we will face, so we need to look closely at the diseases in wildlife.” As part of this careful study of these diseases, Baylis and his colleagues designed a system to recognize predictive patterns that can explore an extensive database of all Known wildlife diseases.

 The New Zealand experience

 

New Zealand officials realized that the battle to eliminate the coronavirus in the country would inevitably call for a digital transformation - so the government quickly installed an app that could record citizens' movements.

 

 

 

In some parts of the world, digital contact tracing means obtaining mobile phone location data - effectively giving the state permission to see the movements of people who have their phones despite the privacy issues it raises, but Thomas Beagle, a spokesman for the New Zealand Civil Liberties Council, did a survey. Unofficial, at the end of March 2020, on Twitter for its followers to ask whether they would install a digital contact tracing app on their phones if the government asked them to do so. More than half replied that they would.

 

 

Digital Report 2020 screenshot

 

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, published by Science T in April 2020, concluded that the virus is spreading so fast that it cannot be contained by manual contact tracing - but that it can be controlled via a faster, more efficient, and larger digital system that can "play a critical role." In countries avoiding lockdown or quarantine.

 

 

 

Commenting on the study, Professor Shawn Hendy, Director of the Te Punaha Matatini Research Center, says Oxford research shows that once New Zealand leaves lockdown, we will need digital assistance to stay outside the Tier 4 conditions.

 

 

 

“The traditional method of contact tracing to search for disease appears to be very slow, without the effect of lockdown,” adds Hendy. “One of the big effects of the lockdown is to help contact tracing tools stay on top of the disease. But if we are going to emerge from lockdown and return to Level Three or Level Two, I think we need to look for new solutions. ”

 

The Singapore experience

Singapore was one of the first countries after New Zealand to adopt a different application last April that helps limit the spread of the Corona epidemic in the country.

 

 But Singapore's success in convincing its more than 600,000 citizens to use a bluetooth-based app called Trace Together provides a more palatable, less attractive alternative that civil liberties activists could accept - and it made sense to emulate the New Zealand device.

 

 

The Singaporean "Trace Together" application, which records the history and contact information on the device, and if the owner of the smartphone tests positive for Covid-19 disease (caused by the new Corona virus), this data can be downloaded so that contact tracing teams can quickly contact others At risk.

 

Even those who do not have a smartphone are used by device alerts to reach users if they are discovered to be close to a person infected with the Coronavirus.

 

 

The first batch of these devices was distributed to elderly people who are at risk, have limited family support and have mobility problems.

 

 These are only examples of the features of the future weapon of the upcoming dilemmas that could face humanity and isolate countries from each other, as Covid 19 did.