Podcast Episode #4: Politics and Pandemic 

 Hi, it's me, Marmee Regine. We are now in the fourth episode. In this episode, we will discuss a little bit of how politics affects the pandemic of coronavirus. I read an article on how a researcher conducted by Wharton management professor Mauro Guillen. He studied the effects of government resources, economic capacity, and the type of government ruling.
The title of the study, "The Politics of Pandemics: Democracy, State Capacity, and Economic Inequality. Guillen's paper assessed the epidemic outbreaks since 1995 in approximately more than 140 countries. Three highlights of our discussion are about the type of government, government resources, and the inequality of income by the population, which will determine how successful it is in coping effectively with a pandemic like COVID-19.
He investigated if the form of government, whether it is a democratic country or an authoritarian state, has effects on how a country will recover in a pandemic. Furthermore, he investigated that the capacity of a nation in terms of its abundant resources helps a lot to cope up with the crisis of an epidemic or pandemic. So, the resources here are the number of government programs available to serve the general public. The resources he refers to is more on the economic capacity of a specific country. Isn't it that is how the world works in reality? The rich countries who got more resources can cope better than those who are in the category of third world countries with less financial resources to consume in terms of preventive measures. Let us take the example of my mother country, the Philippines, where the poor people who got less financial resources lack access to nutritious foods to boost their immune system and require access to health care; that is why they are more prone to get bacterial and viral infections.
So, let us look at the economic capacity of a country and the economic inequality among the population. Guillen's research paper states that the inequality increases the frequency and scale of an epidemic, and it undermines people's compliance with the epidemic containment policies such as social distancing and complying quarantine rules because people at the low end of the socioeconomic scale cannot afford to stay at home—they must go to work. But stable state and government structures could help offset most of these shortcomings. I believed that in this statement, it is similar to the stimulus check that the U.S. government gave all of us in the first wave of the pandemic

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