Absolutely, if there are lessons to take from this crisis, it certainly won't be in favor of openborders and globalization
While the consequences will likely be dire economically, for trainloads of people, it's still a rather modest virus, we aren't talking about a 80%+ mortality rate a la ebola, while it could very well be the case if it had been engineered that way
It's a "just the flu" disaster already, adequate sanitary counter measures aren't in place everybody can see that, all governments got caught off guard on this one
The CDC with the flu than with Corona.
Funny cdc
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>The World Bank launched a $425 million 2017 catastrophe bond issue supporting its Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility (PEF). There are two tranches of PEF bonds outstanding, expected to mature in July, and this means investors of the bonds will collect massive profits if the bonds aren't triggered or will lose everything if the Covid-19 outbreak continues to escalate.
Another big reason why WHO has been quiet is because of China's influence, who has a big seat at WHO's table. They became extremely worried about stigmatization with with corona virus but never gave naming other viri a second thought(MERS being a good recent example).
https://www.sgtreport.com/2020/02/who-gives-coronavirus-a-new-name-to-prevent-stigmatization/
Everything, top to bottom, about the virus and how it's been handled just seems very off.
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