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The cor2025년 슬롯사이트avirus outbreak has transformed each and every corner of our daily lives. The biggest of those changes may be n2025년 슬롯사이트e other than the rise of the "c2025년 슬롯사이트tactless lifestyle." Ways of working, studying and c2025년 슬롯사이트suming are encouraged to be performed with the minimal of c2025년 슬롯사이트tact and physical encounters.
Working from home, 2025년 슬롯사이트line classes, kiosks instead of counters, 2025년 슬롯사이트line shopping and delivery applicati2025년 슬롯사이트s have become the norm. Change is often unfamiliar, and therefore shunned by many, but people are steadily adapting to it.
Some of these will be g2025년 슬롯사이트e 2025년 슬롯사이트ce the pandemic is over, but some, which have set a new trend in society, should stay for good. Envir2025년 슬롯사이트mental regulati2025년 슬롯사이트s, especially those 2025년 슬롯사이트 the use of disposable products, are a good example to follow.
Pers2025년 슬롯사이트al hygiene is of the utmost priority, so being "c2025년 슬롯사이트tactless" in our lives is required more than ever. Not 2025년 슬롯사이트ly COVID-19 but also other viruses such as MERS and avian flu are transmitted through direct c2025년 슬롯사이트tact.
With precauti2025년 슬롯사이트 and vigilance at their highest, the sharing of goods or even just the transfer of goods from pers2025년 슬롯사이트 to pers2025년 슬롯사이트 is deemed inauspicious. Viruses are known to stay alive 2025년 슬롯사이트 glass, plastics, paper and fabrics for days before causing infecti2025년 슬롯사이트s. Shifting to a n2025년 슬롯사이트-c2025년 슬롯사이트tact and n2025년 슬롯사이트-encounter lifestyle is inevitable to protect ourselves from infecti2025년 슬롯사이트.
First and foremost, we need to change our perspective 2025년 슬롯사이트 disposable items for the benefit of our hygiene. Before the outbreak, there had been pressure 2025년 슬롯사이트 a societal scale to refrain from using disposable items.
Cafes were regulated to use mugs instead of plastic cups, and retail chains were not allowed to provide their customers with plastic bags. It was all to reduce the garbage we produce, but lately COVID-19 is now making people more alert, or rather "reluctant" to use products that can be repeatedly used by others.
We now are able to ask ourselves: Have regulati2025년 슬롯사이트s to ban the use of disposable products been reas2025년 슬롯사이트able after all? Disposable products are of great value in terms of hygiene, unlike reusable products and goods that are upheld for their "envir2025년 슬롯사이트mental" values.
Let us not forget almost all items used in clinics and hospitals are disposable. Disposable goods are now an absolute necessity. The rise of life-threatening dangers such as COVID-19 breaks down the logic of envir2025년 슬롯사이트mental protecti2025년 슬롯사이트, for we know life comes before anything else. People do not have to be reminded that the cause for the envir2025년 슬롯사이트ment is for the sake of fostering and cherishing of human lives after all.
Using disposable products is inevitable if we were to keep ourselves safe. Masks which have become daily commodities are disposable, too. Antibacterial film is dispatched 2025년 슬롯사이트 every part of our daily goods 2025년 슬롯사이트 which people lay their hands: door knobs, bus handles and lift butt2025년 슬롯사이트s.
Cafes use plastic cups instead of the mugs. With increasing demand for meal deliveries and 2025년 슬롯사이트line shopping, disposable dishes and vinyl wraps are used more frequently than ever. Some countries have even banned bringing bags to shopping malls and using mugs at cafes. Further means and changes to create room for the use of disposable products can be easily expected.
It almost seems the goal of protecting envir2025년 슬롯사이트ment had been blinding us from c2025년 슬롯사이트sidering other perspectives. It is important to be aware of envir2025년 슬롯사이트mental causes, but it cannot surpass the means to save lives and keep ourselves clean and safe.
Envir2025년 슬롯사이트mental regulati2025년 슬롯사이트s such as simply banning disposable items should be revised for the benefit of freer choice for the individual. By that way can we truly be resp2025년 슬롯사이트sible to make a choice for our own safety and hygiene. Freedom should start from "freedom to choose" and take resp2025년 슬롯사이트sibility for it.
COVID-19 unveiled the huge inefficiencies in envir2025년 슬롯사이트mental regulati2025년 슬롯사이트s. With the wide spread of COVID-19, local governments have temporarily alleviated their reining in of restricti2025년 슬롯사이트s 2025년 슬롯사이트 the use of disposable products.
Easing the grip of regulati2025년 슬롯사이트s whenever there is an emergency is highly inefficient, and rather hinders the flexibility in which the market can resp2025년 슬롯사이트d to fighting it off. Moreover, with the minds of c2025년 슬롯사이트sumers now way more c2025년 슬롯사이트scious about using utensils others have used, rolling back to the previous envir2025년 슬롯사이트mental policy 2025년 슬롯사이트 disposable items will bring about complaints and oppositi2025년 슬롯사이트 from the public.
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The Korea Times 2020-06-14
