China finds itself taking the flak for being non-transparent on the actual number of cases and the provenance of the disease. In other words, it has been encouraged to grow as products generated by the industry are marketed for sex-enhancement, disease-curing qualities making them quite popular with the small Chinese elite. The novel coronavirus has provided fodder for Europe’s populist right to further the pathology of nationalism, renewing their clamor for a crackdown on migrants and a closing down of borders. Solution to a global disease has to be global, through exchange of ideas, better communication and increased coordination. By being hermetic, no one country can cease the spread of an epidemic with the help of the outside world.

Source: Pakistan Today April 16, 2020 18:00 UTC