Traffic During COVID-19

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COVID-19 requires us to stay at home. It is preventing the spreading of viruses. Therefore, governments around the world have been applied social distance policies such as work from home and study from home. It works in countries which level of discipline of citizens is high (Japan, Switzerland). However, it hards for applied in the low discipline of citizens such as America and Indonesia.

Furthermore, originally, humans are social creatures. We can't be alienated from our environment and social life. We must work and get some money to fulfill our basic needs. Unfortunately, COVID-19 enforce us to stay at home. These are contradictory to human nature.

So, after more than a year people fight with Corona, Nowadays, people become resistant and careless. No matter how dangerous the virus, silence is not the way out to survive. Even though you are not infected, you still could die because of starving or failed to pay your debt.

It looks natural when today, peoples are overcrowding the streets. Traffics are everywhere and life seems to return to normal. Everyone on the move to make living. The economy running but on the other side, the infected cases keep going.

Vaccines are not the answer. It just gives us confidence but not a hundred percent to keep us from COVID-19. You can't hold people to stay at home for a long time without fulfilling their needs. Government has a limitation and this is a difficult position.

We can only appeal to people to apply strict health protocols. The vaccination program must be improved and accelerated. Economic must be running and policy must be adaptive to the progress of the situation.