Communication in Pandemic Times

Artist: Tamim Anju

Culture alludes to the socially transmitted qualities, convictions, and images that are pretty much common by individuals from a social gathering. Noticeable social contrasts are found in individuals' conduct; how they impart, signal, their methodology of unraveling complex, dynamic styles, and so forth. For instance: Young individuals utilizes a larger number of expressions and images than older individuals to convey on the web. Indeed, even the decisions of remark posts shifts from which foundation an individual has a place. So we can say each correspondence is culture-explicit dependent on the idea of crowd investigation.

 

Before COVID-19 entered Bangladesh

Example 1: We were making fun about how corona virus will never be able to harm us, as we have already been living in a very toxic place from a long time ago.

Artist: Shahnama

Example 2: The Muslim community of our country were thinking of COVID-19 as a wrath of Allah upon those who were non-Muslim and the ruling political party thought this virus is nothing in front of their political power.

Artist: Tirtho

Here, between example 1 and 2 we can see how we are thinking differently and communicating from that point of view. In first case we are thinking ourselves immune to corona virus and In 2nd case we are thinking that religion is a big factor as corona virus didn't spread in Muslim majority countries. Also the ruling political party was celebrating the 100th birthday of our father of the nation. 

After COVID-19 entered Bangladesh

Example 3: We started panicking when people started to die from corona virus. We became extra cautious about our self-sanitation. But some of us were still making some stupid mistakes like eating blessed mint leaves. These people need soap and sanitizer for their brain but sadly there isn't any.

Artist: Tirtho

Example 4: As we lack testing kits and facilities to fight COVID-19, we are in complete lock down to prevent the virus from spreading. Government warned us to not go out and also there are armies and police forces keeping an eye on the road.

Artist: Alex Howitt (Funny version of American Gothic by Grant Wood)

Example 3 and 4 is showing a pattern of mass communication. Example 3 is about how we blindly believe the wrong information and spread the false news like wildfire, creating a miscommunication.  Example 4 is the real news and the reality we are facing right now.

Along these lines, we can see the marvels of correspondence occurring when COVID-19 entered Bangladesh. In the main situation, we were acting all wild and boasting about being a fearless country yet those all disintegrated down in the second situation as we confronted the brutality of the circumstance.