and the wider community

[GoodTaste]

I understand "and the wider community" as "and the wider community (where patients live)". Am I on the right track?

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COVID-19 exacerbates violence against health workers
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The Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition, a group of non-governmental organisations working to protect health workers in conflict zones, said in a report released in June that 151 such workers were killed in 2019.Humanitarian health workers were being targeted in two main ways, said Stoddard: through attacks on health facilities, such as air strikes on hospitals; and through attacks by patients, patients' families, and the wider community.

Source: The Lancet Published:September 05, 2020
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/l...858-4/fulltext

 

[GoesStation]

The "wider community" is the population of the area where the facilities are located. The article says that some members of those communities had launched attacks on such facilities.

 

[Tarheel]

Who can tell? (Maybe that one is being paid by the word.)

 

[Tarheel]

It seems that Goes actually read the article. By doing so he was able to figure out what was meant by that phrase. GoodTaste, you could have done the same thing. (Sooner or later you should be able to do that.)

 

[GoodTaste]

It seems that Goes actually read the article. By doing so he was able to figure out what was meant by that phrase. GoodTaste, you could have done the same thing. (Sooner or later you should be able to do that.)

I read through the article before posting the thread.

GoesStation offered a reasonable explanation. But the question is still open to discussion. For example, claiming the COVID-19 to be a hoax would place the entire medical comminity in a vulnerable position and attacks targetting health workers who have been fighting the virus and the disease would increase nationwide. Thus "the wider community" would be defined differently.

 

[Tarheel]

It's very hard to understand. People are committing violence against doctors and nurses and other healthcare workers for no particular reason. It's irrational.

 

[GoodTaste]

'The wider community' is the population in general in whichever area you are talking about. Context will tell you how big that area is.

Then the area is nationwide. That the nation is a community is what the article impresses me.

 

[tedmc]

A community is localised, as in a town, city or a district, rather national.

 

[GoodTaste]

Now and then, authors use "community" to refer to a nation.

And be frank, that the Lancet article clearly implies that the doctors and nurses in this global community are under threat of violence.

 

[tedmc]

It is relative of course, but typically it is more localised.

 

[GoodTaste]

We are talking about which definition applies in the context of the OP, not talking about how many definitions the word community has.

 

[tedmc]

In the context of the article you posted, it also refers to the immediate surrounding areas where the events happened, as GS said, and not countrywide.

 

[GoodTaste]

That boils down to how wide the community is. A president who disregarded COVID-19, dismissing the virus that causes the disease as "a hoax" would put the medical community at a woeful position, leading to more attacks nationwide against the health workers fighting the virus. Would you confine the wider communities to the local communities? The grim reality is there, too obvious to ignore.

 

[jutfrank]

This thread seems a bit sidetracked. This all seems quite simple to me. The idea is that Stoddard is classifying incidents in two main ways:

1) miltary/paramilitary attacks
2) non-military attacks

Therefore, the wider community refers to anyone who is not a patient, not a member of the patient's family, and not part of a military/paramilitary organisation.

 

[GoodTaste]

This thread seems a bit sidetracked. This all seems quite simple to me. The idea is that Stoddard is classifying incidents in two main ways:

1) miltary/paramilitary attacks
2) non-military attacks

Therefore, the wider community refers to anyone who is not a patient, not a member of the patient's family, and not part of a military/paramilitary organisation.

Yes. It should be nationwide or even worldwide.

 

[Tarheel]

The wider community cannot attack anybody. Only individuals can do that. Furthermore, nobody has any business attacking doctors and nurses for doing their jobs.

 

[GoodTaste]

Furthermore, nobody has any business attacking doctors and nurses for doing their jobs.

It isn't consistent with the reality. Doctors and nurses know the virus is real yet the families of some patients think the virus is simply a hoax and then they attack the former for cheating on them.

 

[Tarheel]

That isn't consistent with [STRIKE]the[/STRIKE] reality. Doctors and nurses know the virus is real, yet the families of some patients think the virus is simply a hoax, and then they attack the healthcare workers for lying to them.

You're entitled to your opinion.