Community participation is key: To counter the second wave, the government is advocating covid-appropriate behaviour and vaccinations.
If these measures are to be effectively enforced, it will need the active participation of everyone at the community level across the country.The impact of community participation in effectively dealing with such outbreaks is best demonstrated by the example of a 17th-century English village, Eyam, which became one of the most remarkable cases of self-quarantine in history.
During the bubonic plague of 1665-66, Eyam’s inhabitants quarantined themselves to prevent the spread of the plague. People from the village would come to place money in six holes drilled into the top of a boundary stone to pay for food.