Question

1. What epidemics do you foresee in the future? How do you think the government will handle any outbreak?

2. Which factors do you think have the greatest impact on life expectancy? Why?

3. Further speaking about life expectancy, the average life expectancy is predicted to reach 100-120 in the next few decades. What if this happens? What if average life expectancy reached 100 or 110 by mid-century? Identify the changes that would occur in social institutions if 30 or 40 percent of the population was age 65 or older (up from today's 12.5 percent). If we know this change may occur, what social planning could be done to try to facilitate it?

Answer 1

1. The epidemic which I foresee is that from the Coronovirus. It causes common flu symptoms, however the medication to cure it, is still unknown. It has just started affecting quite a few people in China and is also slowly spreading to the world. To handle this outbreak, Government will take measures to seclude those people who are already affected from the healthy ones. Simultaneously, research on the medication will also be conducted. Anything which leaves the country such as planes, export materials, passengers will be disinfected to prevent spreading of the virus. Commute to and from the infected place will be temporarily stopped. Those already affected, will get special care and attention.