Letter to Editor: Social Resilience as a Protection Against COVID-19 Outbreak

Disasters whether natural or man-made occur from time to time and are accompanied by financial and human casualties. Their harmful effects are sometimes immense mostly on the poor, the illiterate, and marginalized people. This condition may be worsened when the governments have no financial support for the poor to save their lives. Even some groups are neglected by the country’s ruling system since they seem to be useless and have even incurred costs for the country. Then, what can be done to find a way out of the said problems? As some research results show, social resiliency can be beneficial to cope with this neglect, at least an emotional relief, when there is no other way. Social resilience is defined as the ability of a human community to cope with and adapt to stresses such as social, political, environmental, or economic changes.