Personal Responsibility As A Challenge During The Covid-19 Pandemic

Abstract

The article discusses the role of personal responsibility in preventing/containing a new coronavirus pandemic in the context of social responsibility theory. Georgia's centuries-old successful experience in fighting infectious diseases was based on the practice of social distancing. Amid the spread of misinformation flow and conspiracy theories, the society could not properly understand the risks associated with the pandemic. The article shows that after overcoming the first wave of the pandemic and easing the restrictions by the authorities in the summer of 2020, the population was not ready to take on social responsibility in order to curb the further spread of pandemic followed by a new wave of infection with more serious socio-economic consequences.