Stop the Pandemic: Step 5: Read Proposals and Listen to Speeches
Step 5: Read Proposals and Listen to Speeches
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5.1. Introduction to Step 5: Read Proposals and Listen to Speeches
In Step 5, the objective is to gain a broad understanding of the different types of proposals for stopping the pandemic and then to rate each of these proposals. Based on your rating, you will then choose one or more proposals to research in more depth. Based on this research, you will then develop your proposal and present your proposal in Step 6.
Democratic and Academic Competencies
In this fifth
step, you are to listen to speeches advocating various proposals to stop the
pandemic at the personal, local, state, and federal levels.
Academic Competencies to Apply in This Step 5:
Academic and
Content Area Vocabulary: Learn and use core Academic and Content Area
Vocabulary to understand and analyze the various stop the pandemic proposals.
Oral Language
Genre Skills: Learn how to evaluate the components of a persuasive speech.
Democratic
Competencies to Apply in This Step 5:
Democratic
Values: Identify the values that are explicit or implicit in each proposal.
Social-Emotional Skills: Social Perspective Taking: Use perspective taking and critical thinking skills to identify the points of view of the different advocates and how they vary from one another.
Social and Ecological Awareness: Risk and Protective Factors: Determine extent to which proposals minimize risk factors and maximize protective factors.
5.2. Introduction to Risk and Protective Factors
One way to evaluate public health proposals is through an analysis of the risk and protective factors related to each proposal.
In Lift Every Voice, the fifth type of Social and Ecological Awareness is to be aware of the risk factors in one's life and the corresponding protective factors.
Risk Factors (Healthy Influences) can include biological,
psychological, family, community, or societal factors that put an
individual at risk for negative outcomes. At the community and societal levels, risks factors can include: income inequality, poverty, individual and institutional discrimination, violence, drug and substance abuse, low levels of literacy or academic achievement, and global warming.
Protective Factors (Healthy Influences) are those persons and
institutions in society that promote healthy social development.
The general public health strategy for improving health is to increase the protective factors in one's life and to reduce the risk factors.
So as you read the proposals below, try to evaluate whether and how they increase protective factors and reduce risk factors.
5.3. Read Proposals and Listen to Speeches
In response to this question, we have develop four sets of proposals for how to stop the coronavirus pandemic.
First, we have a set of personal proposals that you can consider for implementing in your own life.
Second, we have a set of local and state proposals that you can advocate to your local and state elected officials.
Third, we have a set of national proposals that you can advocate to your US Senators and Representatives and to President Biden.
Fourth, and finally, we a set of global proposals that you can advocate to your elected officials and to the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
Please lift your voice and advocate these proposals at any level of government in our country and worldwide.
1. Personal Proposals:
1. Wear Masks, Encourage Others to Do So as Well
2. Practice Social Distancing, Encourage Others to Do Likewise
3. Wash Hands, Clean, Disinfect
4. Get Tested If You Have Symptoms
5. Get Vaccinated As Soon As Possible
6. Promote Healthy Behavior Everywhere, Reach Out to Those Who Are Vaccine Hesitant
Address the Counter Argument: Individual Rights
2. Local and State Proposals:
1. Universal (Mass) Testing
2. Mandatory Wearing of Masks
3. Mandatory Social Distancing
4. Stay-At-Home Orders for Cities and States Which Have a Positivity Rate Above 5%
5. Mandatory Vaccinations
Address the Counter Argument: State's Rights
3. National Proposals: The American Rescue Plan:
1. Beefed-up stimulus payments: $1400 per person to eligible recipients
2. Enhanced unemployment aid: $400 per week till September
3. Rental assistance and eviction moratorium: Till September
4. Help for the hungry: 15% increase in food stamp benefits
5. More money for childcare child tax benefits
6. Temporary increase in tax credit
7. Subsidies for health insurance premiums
8. Restoration of emergency paid leave
9. More assistance for small businesses
10. Aid for states and schools
11. Increased support for vaccines and testing
12. A $15 hourly minimum wage
13. Equitable access to testing, vaccinations, and economic support for at-risk populations
Address the Counter Argument: Restricted Federal Government
4. Global Proposals:
1. Support the World Health Organization's "COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness Plan"
2. Support the European Union Proposed "Pandemic Preparedness Treaty"
3. Provide More Global Surveillance, Genetic Sequencing
4. Develop More Vaccines, Faster
5. Provide More Primary Health Care
Address the Counter Argument: Unilateral Foreign Policy
5.3.1. Coronavirus Legislation Prior to President Biden's Election
5.3.2. Personal Proposal
5.3.3. Local and State Proposals
5.3.4. National Proposals: The American Rescue Plan
5.3.5. Global Proposals
5.4. Rate the Proposals
After reading the proposals and listening to the speeches click on Survey Monkey below to rate each of the proposals. Remember to evaluate them on how they increase protective factors and decrease risk factors.
5.5. Research One or More Proposals
After you have read the proposals, listened to the speeches, and then rated the proposals, the next step is to research in more depth one or more of these proposals. Click on the button below to go to your Stop the Pandemic Project where you can take notes as you research your proposals.
5.6. Review COVID-19 Vocabulary
Click on the link below to review the COVID-19 vocabulary that was introduced in Step 1.4.
5.7. Vocabulary Self-Assessment
Add quiz later. (this will only focus on vocabulary matching; can take multiple times)
5.8. Next Steps
In this fifth step, the objective is to review a broad range of Stop the Pandemic proposals and then to choose one or more proposals that you think will be most effective in this effort. This can include proposals not presented by the advocates reviewed in this step. After reviewing all the proposals and researching one or more proposals, in Step 6, you will develop and present your proposal as a letter, speech (Flipgrid), song, or other type of multi-media presentation.
Revised 3/6/2021.