With the society collapsing , I fear for a common man , I fear for the families who were already living on the edge and now without any jobs , without any money , they are surviving on the brink .
Yes the government is distributing food for the poor , they are doing whatever they can , but it is not enough .
Third world countries like our country barely survives what is happening right now.
TBH, those who know how to work online have the upper hand right now but unfortunately in our country most of the people are employees who are working in different companies where they don't have any salaries if they don't work

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I don't know how the government will act with what is happening right now. The shortest time until a vaccine will be created is 12-18 months like you said and it is a long time. We are currently in a lockdown for less than a month already and we can feel how difficult it is right now especially for those poor people

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Things will take a lot of time to be normal , till then how will the economy survive?
Economy will recover but for now, the countrymen must be the priority of the government right now.