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The truth is viruses emerge all the time. But the over-extensive use of natural resources make them more probable to infect humans. Overpopulation and globalization accelerated the spread. | The truth is viruses emerge all the time. But the over-extensive use of natural resources make them more probable to infect humans. Overpopulation and globalization accelerated the spread. | ||
China could have given sooner warnings about the threat but didn't because we weren't very nice to them in the past. They didn't wanted to blamed for the mess. They wanted to protect their rise to power. The few information available not just hindered the work of the WHO but also the perception of us regular people to see what Corona really was. They shouldn't have tried to censor images about | China could have given sooner warnings about the threat but didn't because we weren't very nice to them in the past. They didn't wanted to blamed for the mess. They wanted to protect their rise to power. The few information available not just hindered the work of the WHO but also the perception of us regular people to see what Corona really was. Therefore it was another source of harmful skepticism. They shouldn't have tried to censor images about bursting hospitals and crematories. And so we first thought "oh, it's not that bad, it's just a stronger flu". | ||
USA did not help the situation by trying to construct a narrative about the virus being made in Chinese labs – therefore sabotaging chances of cooperation – while also downplaying the danger of the virus on their own ground. Trump basically killed a good number republicans himself and destroyed social coherence. Masks? Pah, who needs that? Stop being so unpatriotic... When nature proofed him wrong he tried to sell his lies as anti-panic doings. | USA did not help the situation by trying to construct a narrative about the virus being made in Chinese labs – therefore sabotaging chances of cooperation – while also downplaying the danger of the virus on their own ground. Trump basically killed a good number republicans himself and destroyed social coherence. Masks? Pah, who needs that? Stop being so unpatriotic... When nature proofed him wrong he tried to sell his lies as anti-panic doings. | ||
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Russia thought of Corona as another chance to destabilize and weaken Europe by spreading doubts about the security of Western vaccines. The bitter irony was that the disinformation became a boomerang. Even their own vaccine Sputnik became a "bad seller". | Russia thought of Corona as another chance to destabilize and weaken Europe by spreading doubts about the security of Western vaccines. The bitter irony was that the disinformation became a boomerang. Even their own vaccine Sputnik became a "bad seller". | ||
Europe failed its self-proclaimed humanistic standards. | Europe failed its self-proclaimed humanistic standards. Concerns over profit, the distribution of almost expired and the non-distribution of vaccines and their patents prolonged the pandemic as a whole. This made it even easier for virus variants to emerge. Africa gave Europa what it deserved for its hypocritical denial. | ||
Competing systems. Competing geopolitics. Competing narratives. | Competing systems. Competing geopolitics. Competing narratives. | ||
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'''We all thought we were smarter than the little bugger and could continue to play our own games.''' | '''We all thought we were smarter than the little bugger and could continue to play our own games.''' | ||
'''Instead of having fought each other we should have fought the virus – | '''Instead of having fought each other we should have fought the virus – in unison.'''<br> | ||
Damage control. | Damage control. | ||
What will be the lesson of this horror? Well, Corona will not cease to exist and so will memetic plagues in our heads. | What will be the lesson of this horror? Well, Corona will eventually weaken but not cease to exist and so will memetic plagues in our heads. | ||
"To err is human." | "To err is human." | ||