Challenge – Owing to very little practical world experience , I am picking up a universal challenge , which   should be of concern to every human being . How to deal with Covid 19 . There are multiple elements to   this challenge which are all inter related to each other and can not be addressed by any one standalone   approach . However , the biggest solution that humanity has adopted so far for fighting this pandemic is a   preventive approach i.e. lockdown and I would be analyzing why this solution though seemingly simple   is much more complex and how we could have planned it in a relatively better manner . 

 Selection – Choice of my tool in this case is Visualization . As per my thought process , solutions that   seem simple and are addressing a rather complex issue need much more attention than the obvious   complex solutions . Since our issue and solution both are human centric , with extremely high level of   uncertainty ; visualization is among the best tools that can help strategy designer think of all the   elements contributing to the issue as well as posing risk to the solution . 

 Application – In order to approach this issue let us use the tool at preliminary level to answer ‘ What is ’ .   What is the issue , the as is situation . For me what is would be : 

 What is – Currently there is an infection outbreak , which is contagious with very high infectious rate . It is   airborne and can infect not only by respiratory system but also by any open pore for that matter . This   being a virus does not have a vaccine for it yet and the high mutation rate further reduces the   probability of finding one . Based on the preliminary observations and stats we have realized the   mortality rate is much higher in people aged above 50 . 

 In an attempt to find the solution for this we should initiate with making clusters of interlinked items as   below 

    Medical - M 

    Economical - E 

    Emotional - Em 

    Informational - I 

 Medical cluster would ideally contain all the information about the medical infrastructure . That can be   PPE , Medical related facilities , List of specialized doctors in respiratory diseases across nation ,   categorical bifurcation of doctors as per the locality – city – state – zone – region , medical stockpile   available and list of import dependent items along ( with their source and terms of transaction ) 

 Economical cluster can portray the real impact of lockdown . Now this is easier said than done . If there   were no existing mechanism to track and report such stats , it would be difficult to reach optimum stage   in this cluster . However , to begin with , a bifurcation of population working in core economy activity   ( Miners / Farmers etc ) , economy supporting activity ( courier services / Police/ Medical staff/ govt offices/   manufacturing workers etc ) , leisure and segment to be impacted least ( IT , Movie theatre , Education ,   Restaurants , Malls etc ) , provisioning of upcoming cost to nation based on existing medical infrastructure   from medical cluster ( Overlap – M u E ) . 

 Emotional cluster is the one most important and difficult from human perspective . Understanding how   scared people would be , what sort of reaction to expect on lockdown , how practical it is to stay locked   in a house for 15 or 30 days straight , insecurities , belief and faith systems . This would essentially have all   subjective information with no right or wrong but various perspectives only 

 Informational cluster though would not have an impact on fighting the pandemic but largely how it is   managed . Outcome of this would largely have an impact on emotional cluster . Mode of communication ,   type of communication , frequency of communication , interpretation of communications , govt press   releases , type of guidelines , authorities with decision taking abilities ; all of this could form part of this   cluster . Effective management and planning of this would help government communicate much more   effectively with the masses and ensure support from the masses . 

 Insight and Approach – Current lockdown models though started with simplicity and a common   approach was soon realized as impractical and now have become eventually complex and difficult to   maintain . With the above visualization approach , it might have been possible to plan the overall strategy   in much effective manner . In my opinion below could have been possible approach for implementation   of these lockdown with minimum impact : 

 1 . An initial 15 days lockdown in order to buy time for the above set of activities to chart out the 

 future outcome of this pandemic 

 2 . Communication plan for masses to educate about the issue and provide directions to avoid any 

 miscommunication between different locations . It is very important to look at it as a system   instead of an isolated situation . Lockdown as a measure can only be effective if the overall   system functions in the intended manner 

 3 . Separate instructions and arrangement for functioning of core economy activity and required 

 system support for those organizations 

 4 . Long term advisories for all the leisure and least impacted fields to remove uncertainty and 

 promote better planning at individual levels 

 5 . Procurement of all the essentials ( extrapolating based on the understanding of infectious nature 

 of virus ) in the first week of initial lockdown since logistics would be expected to be relatively   slow owing to huge demand and supply imbalance 

 6 . Establishing national instead of state level control and protocol for people effected by the 

 pandemic 

 7 . If first round of lockdown had not fixed the issue our visualization chart would have helped us 

 understand the kind of impact it had on our economy . The before and after picture might have   have helped us initiate the important economy supporting activity . 

 8 . By realizing relation between various clusters and their dependency on each other we might 

 have had ample data to impose a stricter lockdown in round 3 without having much impact on   the masses 

 Theoretically and probably practically this would have helped us with a more planed approach of   implementing a lockdown as well as coming out of one . However , with none of this planning the   uncertain elements can be completely ruled out but largely can be subsided . 


EMAIL: 
ID_NUM: 
NAME_STUDENT: 
PHONE_NUM: 
STREET_ADDRESS: 
URL_PERSONAL: 
USERNAME: 

### Task: You are a PII (Personal Identity Information) Detection. Given a essays written by students, you have to identify ONLY the following:
NAME_STUDENT - The full or partial name of a student that is not necessarily the author of the essay. This excludes instructors, authors, and other person names.
EMAIL - A student’s email address.
USERNAME - A student's username on any platform.
ID_NUM - A number or sequence of characters that could be used to identify a student, such as a student ID or a social security number.
PHONE_NUM - A phone number associated with a student.
URL_PERSONAL - A URL that might be used to identify a student.
STREET_ADDRESS - A full or partial street address that is associated with the student, such as their home address.
### Input: Challenge – Owing to very little practical world experience , I am picking up a universal challenge , which   should be of concern to every human being . How to deal with Covid 19 . There are multiple elements to   this challenge which are all inter related to each other and can not be addressed by any one standalone   approach . However , the biggest solution that humanity has adopted so far for fighting this pandemic is a   preventive approach i.e. lockdown and I would be analyzing why this solution though seemingly simple   is much more complex and how we could have planned it in a relatively better manner . 

 Selection – Choice of my tool in this case is Visualization . As per my thought process , solutions that   seem simple and are addressing a rather complex issue need much more attention than the obvious   complex solutions . Since our issue and solution both are human centric , with extremely high level of   uncertainty ; visualization is among the best tools that can help strategy designer think of all the   elements contributing to the issue as well as posing risk to the solution . 

 Application – In order to approach this issue let us use the tool at preliminary level to answer ‘ What is ’ .   What is the issue , the as is situation . For me what is would be : 

 What is – Currently there is an infection outbreak , which is contagious with very high infectious rate . It is   airborne and can infect not only by respiratory system but also by any open pore for that matter . This   being a virus does not have a vaccine for it yet and the high mutation rate further reduces the   probability of finding one . Based on the preliminary observations and stats we have realized the   mortality rate is much higher in people aged above 50 . 

 In an attempt to find the solution for this we should initiate with making clusters of interlinked items as   below 

    Medical - M 

    Economical - E 

    Emotional - Em 

    Informational - I 

 Medical cluster would ideally contain all the information about the medical infrastructure . That can be   PPE , Medical related facilities , List of specialized doctors in respiratory diseases across nation ,   categorical bifurcation of doctors as per the locality – city – state – zone – region , medical stockpile   available and list of import dependent items along ( with their source and terms of transaction ) 

 Economical cluster can portray the real impact of lockdown . Now this is easier said than done . If there   were no existing mechanism to track and report such stats , it would be difficult to reach optimum stage   in this cluster . However , to begin with , a bifurcation of population working in core economy activity   ( Miners / Farmers etc ) , economy supporting activity ( courier services / Police/ Medical staff/ govt offices/   manufacturing workers etc ) , leisure and segment to be impacted least ( IT , Movie theatre , Education ,   Restaurants , Malls etc ) , provisioning of upcoming cost to nation based on existing medical infrastructure   from medical cluster ( Overlap – M u E ) . 

 Emotional cluster is the one most important and difficult from human perspective . Understanding how   scared people would be , what sort of reaction to expect on lockdown , how practical it is to stay locked   in a house for 15 or 30 days straight , insecurities , belief and faith systems . This would essentially have all   subjective information with no right or wrong but various perspectives only 

 Informational cluster though would not have an impact on fighting the pandemic but largely how it is   managed . Outcome of this would largely have an impact on emotional cluster . Mode of communication ,   type of communication , frequency of communication , interpretation of communications , govt press   releases , type of guidelines , authorities with decision taking abilities ; all of this could form part of this   cluster . Effective management and planning of this would help government communicate much more   effectively with the masses and ensure support from the masses . 

 Insight and Approach – Current lockdown models though started with simplicity and a common   approach was soon realized as impractical and now have become eventually complex and difficult to   maintain . With the above visualization approach , it might have been possible to plan the overall strategy   in much effective manner . In my opinion below could have been possible approach for implementation   of these lockdown with minimum impact : 

 1 . An initial 15 days lockdown in order to buy time for the above set of activities to chart out the 

 future outcome of this pandemic 

 2 . Communication plan for masses to educate about the issue and provide directions to avoid any 

 miscommunication between different locations . It is very important to look at it as a system   instead of an isolated situation . Lockdown as a measure can only be effective if the overall   system functions in the intended manner 

 3 . Separate instructions and arrangement for functioning of core economy activity and required 

 system support for those organizations 

 4 . Long term advisories for all the leisure and least impacted fields to remove uncertainty and 

 promote better planning at individual levels 

 5 . Procurement of all the essentials ( extrapolating based on the understanding of infectious nature 

 of virus ) in the first week of initial lockdown since logistics would be expected to be relatively   slow owing to huge demand and supply imbalance 

 6 . Establishing national instead of state level control and protocol for people effected by the 

 pandemic 

 7 . If first round of lockdown had not fixed the issue our visualization chart would have helped us 

 understand the kind of impact it had on our economy . The before and after picture might have   have helped us initiate the important economy supporting activity . 

 8 . By realizing relation between various clusters and their dependency on each other we might 

 have had ample data to impose a stricter lockdown in round 3 without having much impact on   the masses 

 Theoretically and probably practically this would have helped us with a more planed approach of   implementing a lockdown as well as coming out of one . However , with none of this planning the   uncertain elements can be completely ruled out but largely can be subsided .
### Output: 