Wriging for Academic Discussion Pandemic and traveling abroad

In recent years, it has become easier to travel abroad due to advancements in technology and transportation. However, the number of people traveling internationally has not fully recovered since the pandemic. Do you think more people will be willing to travel abroad in the future or not? Discuss the potential reasons for your opinion, considering factors such as technology, economic conditions, and social trends.

 

 

☆Let’s think

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☆Hints for Points

Advantages

1.       Cultural exchange will naturally occur. (social trends)

2.       Internationally active people will contribute to improvements in many fields. (technology, economic conditions, and social trends)

 

Disadvantage

1.        Carbon footprints will increase. (social trends)

2.        Another pandemic may happen. (economic conditions, social trends)

 

 

☆Sample Answer

【Thesis】Although is right in that international traveling will have positive impacts on various areas in our lives, increasing interactions between people and materials, I am reluctant to promote more robust international traveling lest another pandemic should happen, considering the speed of the spread of it.

【Supporting Details】The pandemic of COVID-19, started in China at the end of 2019. The next month, a luxury cruise ship named Diamond Princess with infected people was kept off the coast of Yokohama, Japan, without proper treatment. In a couple of months, the virus was rampant around the world.

【Counterargument-treatment】It is true that airport quarantine and proper government countermeasures ought to prevent the spread of virus. But the fact is that we are still living with the coronavirus in the 5^th year of the pandemic. Not all governments can make proper moves based on science for the public good.[ns1]  In Japan, for instance, non-specialist officials didn’t notice that Covid is airborne even after the article of Lancet, and their negligence has covered the truth up till now by not providing PCR tests, letting the virus surge the 11^th time as of August, 2024. Trump, pretending not to know the virus is airborne, even had the idea of applying social Darwinism to pandemic to eliminate those socially vulnerable. Once vaccine was available and after a few boosters, the Japanese government degraded Covid on the infectious disease list, lifting mask-mandate and raising the price of the drugs, and put the real situation of the disaster under carpet. The U.S. under Biden and some other countries contained the virus well, but they are getting it again. As long as the world is connected by advanced transportation, the same successful measures of should be taken around the world to truly end the pandemic, but it won’t be done.

【Conclusion】As many governments are now getting in the hands of those who lack compassion and as development keeps invading animal habitats, increasing the risk of human contacts with unknown viruses, I am pretty fearful of keeping the human flow free throughout the world. (265 words)

 

 

 

 

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